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...have no moral right to lecture us on civilian casualties. We have read the history of [World War II], and we know what happened to civilians when you carried out military operations against the enemy. We also read the history of the Viet Nam War and your term 'body counts...
...Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, Washington, B.C. Maya Y. Lin, designer. A brilliantly simple solution to the emotion-charged problem of honoring 57,709 victims of the controversial...
...South Viet Nam chief of police putting a bullet through the head of a Viet Cong prisoner...
...camps in Thailand that he simply abandoned the assignment. "The conduct of the photographers was morally reprehensible, he recalls with anger. "They were literally trampling dying babies to get better shots." Frequently, however, they are also brave and daring, in an old-fashioned way that is rare nowadays. In Viet Nam, some 30 cameramen were killed or listed as missing covering history's most photographed war More photojournalists died than generals," says Magnum Executive Raymond Depardon. Many of them took their credo from Robert Capa, the legendary photographer best remembered for his stunning LIFE shots of the troops landing...
...they later identified as Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, suddenly appeared and reached for his pistol Adams fast on the draw himself, raised his camera and automatically clicked the shutter. He did not fully realize what he had until a colleague wired, "This is the Greatest Picture of the Viet Nam War!" Or as Evans now explains: "That was the most important gunshot of the war, not because it was heard round the world, but because it was seen round the world...