Southeast Asia: A Correspondent's Vietnam Revisited 35 Years After The Fall Of Saigon -- Christian Science Monitor
Every conflict has its own scribes. Southeast Asia's had a singular take.
For correspondents on the scene of the past half century of foreign wars, there never was anything quite like the decade of United States military involvement in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos from the early 1960s to "the fall of Saigon" on April 30, 1975. Call it the best of times, the worst of times, or both, but journalists had a measure of freedom, and often luxury, in those days that they never had in the Korean War or World War II – and certainly don't see in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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My Comment: When I read this story it reminded me (again) of how different covering the Vietnam war was for the correspondents then .... when compared to covering the war in Afghanistan today. With the exception of embedded journalists/bloggers like Michael Yon, covering the Afghan war has been a major disappointment for information junkies like myself .... and what is even more depressing is that I do not see this trend changing anytime soon.
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