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Trip Details Vinh Long Bangkok Ha Noi Mai
Cho Ha Long Bay Hue Da
Nang From HCMC, we headed down for a two-day sojourn to the Mekong
Delta, and settled in Vinh Long. Dana’s uncle, Robert Sadler,
was stationed in Vinh During our dinner, the restaurant owner greeted us and sat with the
team. Roy engaged in a discussion of where he was at during the war,
and Dana showed him the pictures. After taking a good look at them,
Binh, now a member of the search party, identified a photograph that
he believed would bear fruitful results. The tip-off for Binh, however,
was not found in the people in the picture, but rather, two slaughtered
pigs! Binh stated that there was one person living in Vinh The team adjourned the search for the day, headed out for a drink,
and went to bed early – a rather uneventful evening. Binh met
with us the following day and stated that he had a match and that he
would like to take us to meet the family in the morning. We all headed
out just a bit outside the main part of town and met with the daughters,
son and cousin of two of the men in Dana’s uncle’s photograph!
Success! Dana, Tri, Roy and Michael took several pictures, swapped
stories and addresses, and got a kick out of matching up a thirty-year
We headed back to Saigon that night, pleased with our success. That night, the group ate one final dinner in Saigon together at a beautiful Vietnamese restaurant, and grabbed one last Tiger beer in the city.
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in 1968, and had taken several photographs of children and civilians
during his time there. Prior to the trip,
Sadler reprinted his photographs and suggested that Dana and the team
seek out those who were the subjects of his photography. Upon arrival
in Vinh Long, the team immediately began seeking out elders in the
town who would be able to help us find the subject’s in Dana’s
photographs. After a half-day of searching, we put the project on ‘hold,’ took
a great twilight ride down the Mekong, and headed to dinner.
Long at
the time who raised pigs, and that he would seek them out later that
night and check to see if any identifications could be made.
old photo with people living today. Quite an experience.