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He was a personal friend of General Lewis Walt, the erstwhile commander of the Marines in Danang.Įddie was after more than just good day-to-day newsphoto coverage of the war. We knew Eddie as a former Marine photographer of some repute gained in the Korean War. He had initially arrived in 1965, when the first U.S.
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1, 1968 has reached beyond the history of the Indochina War - it stands today for the brutality of our last century.Įddie had come back to Vietnam a few weeks before the Tet Offensive to take a third crack at this story. Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Loan, at noon on Feb. The photo of the execution at the hands of Vietnam's police chief, Lt. The 12 or 14 negatives on that single roll of film, culminating in the moment of death for a Viet Cong, propelled Eddie Adams into lifelong fame. Running my Nikon eyeball quickly over a roll of black-and-white film from Eddie Adams, I saw what I had never seen before on the lightbox of my Saigon editing desk: The perfect newspicture - the perfectly framed and exposed "frozen moment" of an event which I felt instantly would become representative of the brutality of the Vietnam War. 19, 2004 - Editing film could be a dreary business, but on that day, 36 years ago - the second day of the communist attacks into the very centers of South Vietnam's cities - I felt as though I had won the jackpot of a lottery. “For us to come out and ask for big ticket items like this, fire is very important, ambulance is very important, but sometimes we’ve got to make do with what we’ve got.Horst Faas, photographer and photo editor now retired from The Associated Press, remembers the day he saw Eddie Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the execution of a Vietcong in 1968. “I would encourage you to go back and redefine the nice-to-haves and the must-haves,” Town Councilor Dennis Harmon said to Cone. Not all of his requests were met with acceptance by some councilors.
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On Cone’s list of items requested for 2023 was a hands-off thermal imaging system, firefighter gear, a small tractor for snow removal and grass cutting, replacement windows in the station’s overhead door and new recliners for the firefighters’ day room. “Our kitchen is literally falling apart,” he said, describing doors that have fallen off, including the refrigerator.ĭuring Monday’s meeting, Milton Cone, Houlton’s fire chief and cemetery superintendent, also presented proposed capital needs for the coming year. Much like the department’s vintage-era rifles, the station kitchen dates back to the 1970s. In addition to that, we have valuable equipment, some of our cruisers, our ATVs, trailers and that sort of thing. “It’s really two parts, one is our required records that we have to keep, some are lifetime arrest records.
“We are literally busting at the seams at the station,” he said. Storage and an upgraded station kitchen are also on DeLuca’s 2023 improvement list. The department’s two radar units are about 20 years old and while they are calibrated each year and still reliable, DeLuca said they are generally on a five-to-seven-year replacement program and the town should consider replacing the older models.
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But DeLuca hopes to purchase 10 additional portable radios in 2023 at a cost of about $800 for each radio. The police department has secured grants for some portable officer radios that brings their current total to 14. In addition to purchasing new firearms in the coming year, DeLuca would like to continue replacing the department’s high mileage older vehicles with one new cruiser per year to reduce the department’s overall maintenance cost with a newer fleet. This year, the grant will be used to replace traditional seatbelts in police cruisers with rear seat guards, a center-mounted seat belt, so an officer does not have to reach around the suspect to secure the belt. You are always on top of all these grants, and it takes a lot of effort to get these grants,” Councilor Eileen McLaughlin said to DeLuca earlier in the meeting, regarding a recent Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant of $8,713.ĭeLuca said this is a grant the department has received previously, and he uses it for officer safety improvements.
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