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Did any of our Vietnam Veterans ever meet or see Dickey Chapelle, the female photo-journalist? She was killed in action by a landmine/booby trap on November 4, 1965 at Chu Lai. She seems to have been quite a woman.
I first came to know her name strangely enough, by way of a song by Nanci Griffith, 'Pearls-Eye View', which is about Dickey. On looking up the internet, I found the picture of her receiving the last rites at the time of her death, which I realised I had seen before, but never remembered who it was.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req4.htm
The picture was taken by another photo-journalist, Henri Huet, who himself was KIA in Laos in 1971.
These photographers deserve a lot of respect and praise for bringing the images of war to us, sometimes angering the military in doing so.
I first came to know her name strangely enough, by way of a song by Nanci Griffith, 'Pearls-Eye View', which is about Dickey. On looking up the internet, I found the picture of her receiving the last rites at the time of her death, which I realised I had seen before, but never remembered who it was.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req4.htm
The picture was taken by another photo-journalist, Henri Huet, who himself was KIA in Laos in 1971.
These photographers deserve a lot of respect and praise for bringing the images of war to us, sometimes angering the military in doing so.