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- Whit Richardson
- Username: whit2
- Location: Yarmouth, Maine
- Joined PRX: Nov 06, 2004
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- "Vietnam Bones"
- Summary: A man tries to repatriate the bones of a Viet Cong soldier that his father took from the jungle, 35 years earlier.
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Review of Vietnam Bones
Whit Richardson
Posted on November 07, 2004 at 06:57 PM
This piece is an intimate look into a family, especially the son-in-law Dereyk Patterson, dealing with the war trophy of a veteran. It is a story not often heard, with Veterans day arriving and the current war in Iraq raging, we must wonder if this practice is being repeated with the bones of dead Iraqis, or vice-versa. Are the bones of dead American soldiers sitting in a box in some Vietnamese village, or an Iraqi town? It is an engaging piece that sheds light on a topic rarely discussed.