I am re-blogging this piece I wrote three years ago, after viewing the incredibly moving HBO documentary “Restrepo.” Today is the third anniversary of the death of Tim Hetherington, the photo-journalist who co-directed the film, in Misrata, Libya. An American colleague, Chris Hondros, was mortally wounded alongside him. These brilliant, brave men risk their lives every day to bring us the dramatic footage we see on our newscasts every evening. Let us not forget Tim and Chris.
There have been so many powerful stories lately, it is hard to catch up on them. But one that resonated with the Petchary recently was the death of Tim Hetherington – photojournalist and filmmaker. Tim was buried in London yesterday, May 13. He died covering the conflict in Libya on April 20.
The first documentary film he ever directed, “Restrepo,” has aired recently on HBO. I could not leave the television set for one moment until it ended. I was immediately drawn into the lives of a platoon of fifteen U.S. soldiers, holding out in an area of Afghanistan called the Korengal Valley, a lonely place of dry, empty hills. The place is considered one of the most dangerous postings anywhere, with attacks coming in from all directions, and the soldiers named it after an army medic, Private First Class Juan Restrepo, who had been
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