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MCNAMARA'S LETHAL LEGACY LIVES ON AFTER HIS DEATH: WARTIME BOMBS KILL SIX IN CENTRAL VIETNAM
18 Jul 2009 16:01:00 GMT
 Source: Clear Path International - USA
James Hathaway

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Tran Long's son attends his father's funeral in central Vietnam. Tran Long was killed by a Vietnam-USA war era bomb that detonated the same week Robert McNamara, chief architect of the war died. He was 93. Tran Long was 35.
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Tran Long's son attends his father's funeral in central Vietnam. Tran Long was killed by a Vietnam-USA war era bomb that detonated the same week Robert McNamara, chief architect of the war died. He was 93. Tran Long was 35.
Tran Hong Chi, Clear Path International
QUANG BINH, Central Vietnam - As a stark reminder of the Vietnam War's deadly legacy around the day one of its chief American architects dies, six people in central Vietnam were killed in two separate bomb explosions.

Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, who has been criticized for escalating the war in Vietnam during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died on July 6 at the age of 93.

On July 4 and 6, accidents involving ordnance from that war occurred in Quang Tri and Quang Binh provinces on both sides of the former demilitarized zone that once bore his name: the McNamara Line.

In Quang Tri province on July 4, Tran Long, age 35 was found dead by a small crater formed in the sandy land of Trieu Son commune. A short distance away, Nguyen Diem, age 39, had been also been injured in the explosion and died in transit to the hospital. These two men left behind wives and five children.

Just two days later, at 7:30 pm local time in Quang Binh Province on July 6, another war era bomb, weighing 500 pounds, was disturbed and detonated taking the lives of four men.The eldest was 30 years old, and the other three just 25. Three of the men were married with small children.

Clear Path International serves civilian victims of war in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Vietnam and along the Thai Burma border. You can read more about Clear Path at www.cpi.org


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