re: My dog passed a year ago, can finally write about it.

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Oh please. What are you blubbering about. It’s a dog. Get another one, just like your Grandpa would do, minus all the theatrics and drama. You didn’t lose a child. Grow up.

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So the response is a picture of a murder of an innocent human?

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Nguy?n Van Lém (Vietnamese: [??i?n? van l??m]; 1931/1932 – 1 February 1968), often referred to as B?y L?p, was an officer of the Viet Cong in the rank of captain. He was summarily executed in Saigon during the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, when the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive surprise attack. Before being captured, Lém had allegedly murdered South Vietnamese officer Nguy?n Tuân as well as six members of Tuân's family.

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"He wasn't wearing a uniform and I can't respect a man who shoots without wearing a uniform. Because it's too easy: you kill and you're not recognized. I respect a North Vietnamese because he's dressed as a soldier, like myself, and so he takes the same risks as I do. But a Vietcong in civilian clothes - I was filled with rage."

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Nguy?n Ng?c Loan died of cancer on 14 July 1998, aged 67, in Burke, Virginia. After his death, Adams praised him: "The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him."

Eddie Adams wrote a eulogy to Loan in Time:

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The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn't say was, "What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?

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