Home / /

Seared into memory: 50 years on, a Vietnam War reporter looks back

By David Barber
Contributing writer·New Zealand Listener·
14 mins to read


More than 50 years after covering New Zealand’s involvement in the deeply unpopular Vietnam War, David Barber remains haunted by the memories of the children he encountered.

The history books record April 30, 1975, as the day Saigon fell to conquering North Vietnamese troops, ending nearly two decades of internal conflict in what the colonising French once called the “Pearl of the Orient”. But to me and hundreds of thousands of others who participated willingly or otherwise in one way

Vietnam – Further reading


Save