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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- American veteran Paul Reed, whose relationship with
Vietnamese veteran Nguyen Van Nghia was the topic of the documentaries
Kontum Diary and Kontum Diary: the Journey Home, will appear at
the SUNY College at Oneonta on Thursday, November 5, to lead a discussion in
conjunction with a screening of the second film. The event will take place
at 3 p.m. in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center on campus.
Admission is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to
participate.
A follow-up to the 1994 documentary, Kontum Diary: the Journey Home
chronicles the meeting between Reed and Nguyen Van Nghia, author of a poetic
diary that Reed found as a soldier near Kontum, Vietnam, in 1968. Twenty
years later, Reed had the diary translated and began trying to find Nguyen
Van Nghia, who was alive and eager to meet Reed. Kontum Diary: the
Journey Home follows the men from their first tense meeting in a
Vietnamese village in 1993, through their 12-day journey together in
Vietnam, and into their development of a deep friendship.
Reed’s appearance at SUNY Oneonta is sponsored by the Office of Equity
and Inclusion. More information about the event is available from Dr. B.
Cecilia Zapata, Director of the
Office of Equity and Inclusion, at (607) 436-2830.
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