Tag: John Durniak

  • We’re Just Sayin: Fifty Years On…

    Fifty Years On…

      I stumble a bit, me, the former Math major, when I try and do the ‘math.’   Last fall was fifty years:   I arrived in Vietnam in October 1…

    Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2021/02/fifty-years-on.html

    When I told John I was heading to Vietnam, he said to me… “do a story for me –  call it  Children of War…”    I paused, then bagan to ask, “John, what do you want me to do… ?”  and before I could finish the sentence, he said “No, no!  You tell ME the Story.  YOU’re the journalist, your pictures should show ME the story.”  Over the decades since, I have been immensely glad for that teaching moment.