Philip Jones Griffiths in Memorium

SICILY - As befits the Sicilian disposition, relics had been rescued. Earthquakes have long since been appropriated by religions and presented as the wrath of some god. After an earthquake in Spain, as heretics were publicly burned, it was declared that the sight of several persons being incinerated with great ceremony is an infallible recipe for earthquake-prevention. 1968.	LIVERPOOL: School Outing - This group of school children and their teacher were waiting to board a bus. Liverpudlians have always expressed an intensity rarely seen on other faces. When Evelyn Waugh described people like this in his novels, he was accused of fantasy. 1952.	WALES - This young boy epitomizes our Welsh ambivalent love for both rugby and music. This place, Pant-y-Wean, was once, in the 1930s, voted the most Beautiful Village in South Wales, but it has long since been obliterated by opencast mining. When I asked what he was doing, he replied, "My mother gave it to me to mend." 1961.
GAMBIA - On the riverbank in Gambia near Juffure, home of the slave Kunte Kinte of 'Roots' fame. Nowadays, Swedish visitors have made this poor West African country a favored tourist destination, especially for older single women who find the local men amenable. In earlier times, slaves were gathered on the island in mid-river before being shipped to the West Indies. 1978.	NORTHERN IRELAND - This soldier was facing a hostile crowd of youngsters and, for a moment, his expression revealed his disdain. 1972.	NORTHERN IRELAND - Since ancient times, the shield has presented a challenge to military designs -- how to see the enemy without sacrificing protection. The latest development is one made of Plexiglas. Unfortunately, it affords a dimmed visibility after repeated blows. 1973.
MAURITIUS - A rare moment when the constituent symbols of colonialism come together in a frame. On a French sugar plantation the owner, with his dog, guides visiting priests around the garden of his mansion. 1966.	SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM - 1967.	SOUTH CHINA SEA, VIETNAM: U.S. Air Force - As part of the techno-war concept, the idea of an automated battlefield was widely touted. Aircraft carriers - floating airstrips, secure from the attack - would respond to requests for bombing. The pilots never saw the faces of those they killed and maimed. It was considered important to protect men from sights that could produce emotional reactions. 1971.
QUANG NGAI, VIETNAM - This was a village a few miles from My Lai. It was a routine operation - troops were on a typical "search and destroy" mission. After finding and killing men in hiding, the women and children were rounded up. All bunkers where people could take shelter were then destroyed. Finally the troops withdrew and called in an artillery strike on the defenseless inhabitants. 1967.	VIETNAM - Older soldiers who missed their families befriended dogs and children. The canines proved more congenial. More dogs than wives were taken back to the U.S. 1967.	NHA BE, VIETNAM - In a society where women are traditionally revered for their poise and purity, the wartime conditions effectively dehumanized them. This girl was dancing for a group of U.S. Navy personnel on a makeshift stage (the officer's reviewing stand) when she was joined by two unwelcomed spectators. 1970.
HUE, VIETNAM - 1968.	VIETNAM - The battle for Saigon. 1968.	VIETNAM: The battle for Saigon - U.S. policy in Vietnam was based on the premise that peasants driven into the towns and cities by the carpet-bombing of the countryside would be safe. Furthermore, removed from their traditional value system they could be prepared for the imposition of consumerism. This "restructuring" of society suffered a setback when, in 1968, death rained down on the urban enclaves.
VIETNAM: The battle for Saigon - American G.I.s often showed compassion toward the Vietcong. This sprang from a soldierly admiration for their dedication and bravery; qualities difficult to discern in the average government soldier. This VC had fought for three days with his intestines in a cooking bowl strapped onto his stomach. 1968.	VIETNAM - This woman was tagged, probably by a sympathetic corpsman, with the designation VNC (Vietnamese civilian). This was unusual. Wounded civilians were normally tagged VCS (Vietcong suspect) and all dead peasants were posthumously elevated to the rank of VCC (Vietcong confirmed). 1967.	VIETNAM - Le Thi Ut, age 13, is the black daughter of Le Thi Mai, who also has five brothers and six sisters with a Vietnamese father. She attended Vinh Phu School in Ben Tre where she was the class monitor. She knew little about her father - the name was left blank in the school records - except that he was stationed in Ben Tre during the war. She was adamant that she wanted to stay in Viet Nam.
VIETNAM - The view through the gates of the Hao Lo prison - "Hanoi Hilton" - the only glimpse of Hanoi afforded the prisoners.	HANOI, VIETNAM - U.S. Senator John McCain and his wife and son stroll along the bank of Truc Bach Lake during a tour (paid for by NBC's Today program) to Vietnam on the 25th anniversary of the end of the war. He did not endear himself to the Vietnamese when he claimed that "the wrong guys" won the war.	VIETNAM - Mr. Nguyen Van Tuc came to pay tribute to the memory of his son, Hung, killed on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1972 at the age of 22.
VIETNAM - Vo Van Trac, at 26, being looked after by his mother, Mai Thi Nghiem. After 10 years his condition, caused by Agent Orange, has not changed. 1994.	HANOI, VIETNAM - The son of Mrs. Le Hu Thin preserved at the Viet Duc Hospital. Her husband, Nguyen Van Oanh, was a truck driver on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and was sprayed three times with Agent Orange. 1980.	CAM NGHIA, VIETNAM - Le Thi Hoai Nhonn, 23, has the stature of a 3-year-old, with stunted fingers and toes. Her father, Le Huu Dong, 55, a rice farmer, was stationed nearby in the Saigon Army for the entire war.
VIETNAM - This woman, badly disfigured during a napalm strike, adopted this girl as a baby. The child was orphaned when her family died in an American attack. 1981	MALAYSIA - At the Pulau Bidong camp set on an island off the east coast of Malaysia, would-be immigrants to America were first photographed. The camp on a tiny island became a bustling mini Saigon. A quarter of a million refugees passed through this camp before it was eventually closed in 1991.	VIETNAM - Children commemorating the end of the war a decade earlier in a celebration near Ho Chi Minh City. 1985.
VIETNAM - Ancient cyclos still play their part, rescuing modern status symbols.	HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Vietnam at Peace - This girl lives with her family on their boat moored on the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City. To get to school, she punts herself to the bank standing on a piece of Styrofoam packing material. 2002.	HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM - Discarded busts of "Uncle Ho," Ho Chi Minh. A local magazine polled young people to discover that they identified Bill Gates as their personal hero rather than identifying with the leader Ho Chi Minh. Subsequently, the police confiscated the magazine's copies, burned them and fired the editor in chief.
VIETNAM: Vietnam at Peace - On the "more is more" principle, the Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever has blanketed Vietnam with washing powder advertisements. 2002.	HANOI, VIETNAM: Calisthenics conducted every morning on the streets.	VIETNAM - Fashion shows have become standard fare in the towns and cities of Vietnam. Extraordinary beauty is being revealed for all to see in a way that was unthinkable a few years earlier when sensuality was more subtle.
DA NANG, VIETNAM - Like their fathers before them, returning sailors prepare to see the sights of Da Nang. Unlike the 3,500 Marines who arrived 39 years earlier, their intentions were friendly.