General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a VietCong Prisoner in Saigon. Eddie Adams. AP
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Almost instantly, an image can trigger staggering emotions, memories, and reactions that people didn’t even think they had before. Not only used as a form of personal self expression, they are also historical, political, and one of the most powerful means of communication we still have today.
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My Comment: General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon (see above) is the one that I will always remember .... including this one that is not on the list.
On a side note ....while doing some research for this post I found this must see photo gallery on the Vietnam war. The link is here.
He had just found out this guy was part of a team that he killed one of Loans officers and entire family.
ReplyDeleteThe name under this photo attributes it to Eddie Williams. That is not the correct name. It was taken by Eddie Adams an AP photographer from NJ. I grew up with us daughter. He won a pulitizer prize for the photo.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct Mr. Duffy .... thank you for pointing it out. I must have had a brain freeze when I was writing down his name (I have a friend whose last name is Williams .... I must have been thinking of him when I was writing down the photo credit.)
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