Article: Mother of journalist killed in Somalia compiles journal of memories

Maggie Ybarra
University Wire
08-29-2007
(Daily Lobo) (U-WIRE) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Seventeen journals were all Kathy Eldon had left after her son, Dan, was stoned to death by an angry mob in Mogadishu, Somalia.

As a testament to the way her son had died and lived, she selected pages from his journals and had them bound together in a book titled "The Journey is the Destination."

Dan Eldon was a photojournalist on assignment for Reuters when United Nations forces bombed a house they believed to be the headquarters of Gen. Mohammed Farrah Adid.

He and three photojournalists went to the house to document the attack.

Hundreds of people died during the bombing. Relatives and friends who survived ...

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