Vietnam War Photographer Still Searching For Missing Friends

Tim Page was a photographer during the Vietnam War. Back in the day, he and two if his intrepid colleagues would venture into the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia and snap photos of both American and enemy soldiers. They usually traveled via motorcycle and clearly had no issues putting their lives in danger. Complete savages.

In 1970, Page's colleagues -Dana Stone and Sean Flynn - went into the bush looking for guerrillas one day and never returned. To this day, Page is still searching for their bodies.

From The Times:

Mr. Page had shared some of those journeys into darkness, and his visit to Pkhar Doung was the latest of many forays in what he calls “a 25-year madness” in search of the bones of the man he calls his brother.

Weeks earlier two bounty hunters had made a false claim to have found them, reviving interest in the disappearance and spurring American investigators to step up the search for the missing journalists.

“I don’t like the idea of his spirit out there tormented,” Mr. Page said, a wandering ghost that could only find rest, as many in Asia believe, after proper funeral rites. “There’s something spooky about being M.I.A.”

Mr. Page is also seeking a measure of peace for his own soul, scarred like his body from the traumas of combat, from nearly fatal wounds and the loss of friends, trying to put together what he calls “an enormous jigsaw puzzle, bits of sky, bits of earth.”

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