Air Force team stationed in Vietnam dyes Easter eggs for Catholic orphanage and helps bridge a cultural divide.
Ted Engelmann
Ted Engelmann is an Air Force veteran who spent 1968-69 in Vietnam with a forward air control team supporting American and Vietnamese soldiers. Since the late 1980s, he has lived part-time in Vietnam, Korea, Australia and the US, photographing veteran parades and memorials. In 2008 he was a freelance embed photographer with the US Army in Baghdad, Iraq, and in 2009 embedded in Regional Command-East, Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. He is finishing his photographic memoir, “One Soldier’s Heart: The Emotional Wounds of War.” Ted lives in Denver.
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