KSV News: Short Round 036

New Website Photos

If you have not passed through our web site Photos Bunker recently, I promise it will be a great new adventure.  Please find it at: (khesanh.vet/home/khe-sanh-photo-album/

Earlier photos posted on our earlier websites were great at showing personal life in the bunkers and in the wire.  They were primarily casual photos of individuals and groups in and around Khe Sanh- “Selfies” if you will.  I think of them as photos you view once, and do not come back to study in depth.  They told a part of our Khe Sanh story on our earlier web sites for decades.  But it is time to add new photos to tell the story in greater detail.

When you visit the KSV Photos Bunker now, please disregard all but two of the folders there- the others are under construction.

Focus (no pun intended) on just the two folders with works from David Powell and Swede Odman.  David is a professional photographer- he was doing that at Khe Sanh to make a living- as a vocation.  Swede was a Grunt stationed at Khe Sanh who was filling sandbags for a living, but taking photos as an avocation.

In a future Short Round, I am going to first introduce David Powell’s works to you and tell how we came to have them on our khesanh.vet web site- not an easy path to do ethically.  But a great story.

And then, using several future Short Round Newsletters, we will explore in greater detail Swede’s works.

** May I recommend that you read / reread a sobering article from our Red Clay II collection.  it describes how a company of Marines broke out of the Khe Sanh lines and killed 115 NVA who were waiting for them.  Man on man and hand to hand with fixed bayonets. War does not get more brutal.  khesanh.vet/with-bayonets-fixed-khe-sanh-30-march-1968/

SF

Bob Koury:  Website & Digital Manager

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