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May 21, 2005
Follow Up
After my last blog entry I received dozens of e-mails asking me if I knew what happened to the little boy I wrote about. I do not. My unit was doing counter insurgency training at the time and we were moved back to my base in Potchefstroom shortly after that. As far as I can gather, the kids were taken back to their homes on the Angolan border after treatment. There was a civil war raging in Angola at the time, which made the country unsafe for travel until just recently.
The e-mails and the blog entry itself stirred up a lot of emotions about that time and got me thinking. (As you can see.)
I am now toying with the idea of taking a documentary film crew and trying to locate the young boy who would now be close to thirty years old. A mammoth task. I’ll keep you posted.
Posted by trevor at May 21, 2005 08:38 AM