Years ago I remember watching “The Killing Fields”. Words cannot describe the way that movie touched me.
Followed by Spalding Gray's (an actor who was also in "The Killing Fields") monologue "Swimming to Cambodia" put my emotions "over the top". Spalding Gray's body was pulled from New York's east river in 2004, apparently a suicide.
So when I read about Dith Pran’s death I shed more than one tear.
While reading the article I noticed the actor Haing S Ngor, who won an academy award portraying Dith Pran, was murdered in Los Angeles (1996).
Dith Pran and Haing Ngor, not to mention their families, suffered greatly at the hands of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. More aptly referred to as the Cambodian Holocaust!
I also linked to a photo exhibit and saw a recent picture of Dith Pran provided by Jane Freiman Schanberg. Thank you Mrs. Schanberg for that wonderful picture.
These men were true heroes.
Followed by Spalding Gray's (an actor who was also in "The Killing Fields") monologue "Swimming to Cambodia" put my emotions "over the top". Spalding Gray's body was pulled from New York's east river in 2004, apparently a suicide.
So when I read about Dith Pran’s death I shed more than one tear.
While reading the article I noticed the actor Haing S Ngor, who won an academy award portraying Dith Pran, was murdered in Los Angeles (1996).
Dith Pran and Haing Ngor, not to mention their families, suffered greatly at the hands of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. More aptly referred to as the Cambodian Holocaust!
I also linked to a photo exhibit and saw a recent picture of Dith Pran provided by Jane Freiman Schanberg. Thank you Mrs. Schanberg for that wonderful picture.
These men were true heroes.
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