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This is the home of the local arms dealer of the village of Khe Sanh. Those guys I met hauling that huge artillery round out of the jungle near the Lang Vei Special Forces camp probably ended up here. |
It was late in the day and it had been a long day of touring the area around Khe Sanh and Lang Vei. We took a break at the "arms dealer's" home and watched as ordnance was brought in from the countryside. I got out to photograph a guy unloading his oxcart of 105mm rounds he had uncovered. He'd reach into the cart, pickup a round and toss it into the growing pile at his feet. After I had photographed him doing this for several minutes, I realized the stupidity of my situation everytime he tossed a round on the pile and it made a loud clank. I quickly moved away from this scene. |
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The lure of finding what we left behind. I ran into these guys using old beat-up Russian metal detectors to search for relics of the war. This photo was taken at Khe Sanh but I saw these same guys at Con Thien. Before crude metal detectors they used long metal probes to search for stuff. I'm told that every now and then a probe would meet with a live round. Also, there is the story of the scavenger probing one day when he struck a bulldozer that had been buried--he was set for life. |
