Boi Van Trinh, 1973

Boi Van Trinh, seen from the shoulders up, balances a plate of food on his head, holding it with one hand, some thirty miles north of Saigon. Photograph is mounted, with label providing a brief biography: "Boi Van Trinh, a lad of good cheer and strong will, offers ricecake wrapped in banana leaves to the photographer as an appetizer for dinner. A street urchin whose family had been killed Boi was adopted by a couple of us newsmen. Many times accompanying us on patrols, Boi learned how to phtogrpah well enough to sell a photo to AP, he learned how to drive a Jeep and how to shoot a M-16. He next wanted to fly a helicopter. But he was killed four days before his fourteenth birthday the day he was to begin his flying experience."

Place

Vietnam

Extent

1 photograph; 34 x 25 cm.

Language

English

Subject(s)

Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Vietnamese

Children

creator(s)

Ashcraft, Barr G., 1940-2005

Genre

Photographs

Black-and-white photographs

Rights

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