'Killing Fields' Survivor Dith Pran Dies

[A4sForever]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif] NEW YORK (AP) - Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65.

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[HuggyU2]

Pretty young. But he had some hard miles on him. An exceptional human. God speed, Mr Pran.

 

[FLYTPAY]

That movie really makes you appreciate being fortunate enough to be an American. With a 4.5% chance of being an American, we are born into unlimited opportunity. It pisses me off when you see people that are unappreciative losers, leaching off of American society. Fcvk Mississippi....vent over.

 

[mb1k]

That's depressing, he was so young.

One of my bitterest memories was watching a special on "The Killing Fields" with a LAMPS squadron mate and his wife. The reporter said something about some of his extended family being in the states to visit but having to leave because their Visa's were up. They both shouted, "Good!" at the same time and then went on to say how "..'Merica don't need no more foreigners". Texans...

 

[Tex_Hill]

That's depressing, he was so young.

One of my bitterest memories was watching a special on "The Killing Fields" with a LAMPS squadron mate and his wife. The reporter said something about some of his extended family being in the states to visit but having to leave because their Visa's were up. They both shouted, "Good!" at the same time and then went on to say how "..'Merica don't need no more foreigners". Texans...

Hey now, don't lump all us Texans in the same boat. Personally I'm all for folks from other countries coming over here as long as they do it legally. It's the illegals who leach off of us that I can't stand.

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[mike172]

He came to my High school in NJ! I can't believe he died.

 

[mb1k]

Hey now, don't lump all us Texans in the same boat. Personally I'm all for folks from other countries coming over here as long as they do it legally. It's the illegals who leach off of us that I can't stand.
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I knew I'd get a rise out of someone

 

[Scoob]

He came to my High school in NJ! I can't believe he died.

Well, Jimmy, everbody that went to your high school is going to die someday.


Now, lets talk about those funny feelings you've been having when you climb the rope in gym class.

 

[A4sForever]

You know ... some of you guys are really idiots. You are fools w/ little or no appreciation for what counts in life. No names necessary .... it's obvious who I'm talkin' about ...