Source: Vanity Fair
Business Insider: 15 poignant photos that show what life was like during the Vietnam War
In 1954, America entered into a messy war to support South Vietnam against the communist regime in North Vietnam and its allies in southern Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong.
The two-decade long war claimed the lives of more than 3 million people, with the majority of the casualties being Vietnamese civilians.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, here are some of the most gripping and recognizable photos from the conflict.
Editors note: Some of the following images are graphic in nature and may be disturbing to viewers.
16 comments:
Sorry WNU Editor,
But sanitizing war images, is disturbing and make war more acceptable, and possible.
"In honor of the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, here are some of the most gripping and recognizable photos from the conflict."
And mislabeled, out of context, and misused. Oh well, that was long ago and I don't care that much anymore.
Judge for yourself if Khamenei is acting out of fear or arrogance; with Obama asleep at the wheel, you can read it either way.
http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2015/05/02/the-real-fatwa/
i tink wnu is getn worst the best pic was us army leaving on helos in saigon
Too bad they never got pictures of the re-education camps or the boat people after Hanoi took over. And the killing fields in Cambodia - remember them, Peter?
Of course you don't.
"i tink wnu is getn worst the best pic was us army leaving on helos in saigon"
I bet you really like picture of the boat people also.
Or maybe you pine for the re-education camps.
Phillip,
You are quicker on the draw.
they compare to agent orange poured frm us bombers killin and maiming tens of thousands innocents yrs later
how do u know i dont remember i do in fact as it stands and they wer cruel fuks too but millions suffered frm us bombings then and later us stop stickn ur big nose wer its not needed unless u really mean to make difference iraq .syria.libya afghanistan.,made bo difference only worst off are people
Agent Orange?
No, Dioxin.
Please get it right.
Hopefully, you are not a chemistry teacher.
BTW, Norway had the most SS birthing center of any country.
agent orange ,dioxin so wot still kills doesnt it ukraine now fucked up as well want as bad bfore us butted in now ur gonna say it wasnt a coup aent yeas
You must be upset. Your English is usually better.
If you have bad batch of Agent orange, because it was processed at too high of a temperature, you will lots of it. It is a by product. I assume that quality back in the day was absolutely primo.
I doubt the chemists or the military had any intention of harming people using Agent Orange.
Keep bashing the US. If it hadn't been for the U.S., you would be speaking German or Russian.
At least he's quit
YELLING.
ofs
I'd wish he'd start typing coherently. Spelling and punctuation are your friends.
That said, I noticed Peter totally blew off the after-effects. I'm not surprised; his ilk blew them off back then as well.
Ironically, it took the Vietnamese to end the Khmer Rouge regime. And a story and film no one wanted to see the light of day for anyone to face that it happened. And years before any of them faced trial. Guess Uncle Joe was right (you know Uncle Joe, right Peter? Of course you do.)
There is a lot of comments for just 15 photos from a war that ended 40 years ago. Hmmmm ....
In the US, the Vietnam War never ended, there is no concensus on the war, there is very little Political History, and it is viewed amongst the timeframe of the Race Wars, the Culture Wars, and as something that mostly affected Americans.
Even in the dry tactical histories, the Vietnamese hardly ever enter into it.
Amongst the Right, many in the Center and even some of the Left, there is a "stabbed in the back" mythology, identical to that which arose in Weimar Germany amongst the Army and the Right, that became a cornerstone of Nazi althistory.
Even the one Big thing the US Military actually learned from the war, the Powell Doctrine, was tossed aside in the rush to War after 9/11.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_Doctrine
Then, as The Afghan War and the Iraq War started falling apart, all the failed COIN tactics and strategies, from the Phoenix Program to the Strategic Hamlet Programs were trotted out to try to grasp "victory" from the jaws of defeat.
Facing 2 failed wars and almost a dozen failing military interventions, a dozen small scale Vietnams ongoing,
Vietnam is still a sore spot, with wounds that have never healed, because rather than learn history and learn from it, the US embraced Mythology and Alt-History.
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