Dana Stone
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Dana Stone (born 1939 in North Pomfret, Vermont; believed killed 1971, Bei Met, Cambodia) was a U.S. photo-journalist best known for his work for CBS during the Vietnam War.
Stone paid his own way to Vietnam in 1965, and became a stringer for UPI. A novice photographer when he arrived in Saigon, he soon became a combat photographer of note.[1] He and his wife Louise left Saigon for Europe in 1968, but returned in 1970.
On April 6, 1970, Stone and his colleague Sean Flynn were captured by the Vietcong, after leaving Phnom Penh on rented Honda motorbikes to find the front lines of fighting in Cambodia.[2] Investigations by fellow photojournalist Tim Page, reported in the UK Sunday Times on 24 March 1991, indicate that Stone and Flynn were taken first to the village of Sangke Kaong, and then to other villages before being handed over to the Khmer Rouge. Page and a TV documentary maker tracked down an empty grave in a village known as Bei Met that had allegedly been the final resting place of two foreigners. Forensic examination of the few remains left in the grave suggested they belonged to a tall man and a short man – consistent with the appearance of Flynn and Stone respectively – and that both had died violently.
His younger brother, Thomas, joined the U.S. Army in 1971, soon after graduating from high school, reportedly due in part to a desire to discover what had happened.[3] He later served as a medic in the Vermont National Guard, and was killed by friendly fire on March 29, 2006 in Afghanistan on his third tour.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ REQUIEM, Dana Stone, Bong Son, Vietnam, 1966
- ^ Synopsis of the Capture at Pownetwrok
- ^ Loss of brother in Cambodia motivated Stone to serve, Wilson Ring, Associated Press, March 31, 2006
- ^ U.S. Army Confirms 'Friendly Fire' Deaths, Doug Struck, Washington Post Foreign Service, Wednesday, July 4, 2007
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