Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer.
FILE - A Guatemalan woman, showing signs of severe malnutrition, lies on a cot at a makeshift clinic in a refugee camp on the outskirts of China, Mexico, near the border with Guatemala, July 7, 1984. Pat Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered the civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press, and who later worked at Reuters covering the Gulf War in Iraq, died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, after a long struggle with cancer. He was 74.
"Pat had seen war as a Marine combatant in Vietnam and those experiences in some ways prepared him to return to war; but this time with a different weapon, a camera, and a different mission — to show the world both the horrors of war itself and the quiet dignity of so many whose lives were upended or ruined," said Santiago Lyon, former AP vice president and director of photography.
“I learned so much from Patrick. As a young photojournalist I was intrigued by his stint with the AP Mexico City and his coverage of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and the other tumult in Central America,” McAllen Monitor photographer Delcia Lopez said in a Facebook post.“I remember Patrick showing me a collection of his amazing black and white photos.
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