And walked down, all the board were in there. He said, david, i want to pledge the support of the sunday times and all the power we can muster to take these people on and get the due compensation to which the victims are entitled. He was invaluable, he really was invaluable and i will miss him greatly. Evans moved to america with his wife, thejournalist tina brown, shifting from a golden era in newspapers to one in magazines. Now in a new york power couple, he was a long way from his north of england roots, but remained forever a news man at heart. He excelled at everything journalism required. He was a fine writer, had a greateye for layout and design and typefaces, he had an instinct for a story and he believed in investigative journalism. And he took all that and he used it to create the modern sunday times. The embodiment of a humble hack, taking on mighty forces with nothing but the truth, harry evans putjournalism itself in a debt to him that will never be serviced. Sir harold ev
Poem that was composed in 1970. Because it prints the book, i would like you to frame our conversation by reading it. David id be happy to. Its titled letters from plaku. If you are able save for them a place inside of you. And save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you love them though you may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep them in their own. And in that time when men decide to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. Michael odonnell, january 1st, 1970. Susan who was Michael Odonnell . David Michael Odonnell was a young man who found himself in vietnam in 1970. He was a songwriter and a poet and a helicopter pilot and a hero and ultimately a casualty of the vietnam war. Susan how did you encounter his poetry . David i first came across it in a book by harold evans. There was a section of the vietnam war in th
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