re: I learned something today about an iconic Vietnam photograph

For a glimpse of marxist rule read up on what happened in Hue when it was temporarily captured during the Tet offensive. The communists had their kill lists and it was mass murder in Hue as fast as they could get it done. They knew they had only a limited time to kill as many as possible before losing control of Hue. In fact, I believe the photo was taken during the Tet offensive. Bear in mind, those kill lists were carried out across the country during the Tet offensive-not just Hue. Brutal.

Sort of like the Biden regime doing as much damage as fast as they can to America before losing control.

Hershey Barrrrrrr

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I've been lurking/reading here for years, is there a DM function?

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pretty sure no

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I'd like to share this picture and info(cut and paste word for word)

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you can cut/paste the text and 'SaveAs' the image.

A slight hijack to pay respects to some other combat correspondents who invested themselves fully to cover an ugly war and give American troops the fairness and dignity they deserved.

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The night before her death, she had dinner with Lt. Gen. Lewis Walt, Marine Commander in Vietnam, Garofolo said, and “told him that when she dies, she wanted to be on patrol with the Marines.”

She was near the front of a patrol as part of Operation Black Ferret with the 7th Marine Regiment when a Marine ­activated a tripwire. Shrapnel went through Chapelle’s neck and hit her carotid artery.

French Associated Press photographer Henri Huet was there to capture a hallowing image of a Navy chaplain delivering her last rites. Huet was later also killed in Vietnam.


Chapelle died on November 4, 1965. On that day, Gen. Greene sent a ­Marine-wide message, “She was one of us, and we will miss her.”
Dickey Chapelle

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Burrows went on to become a photographer and covered the war in Vietnam from 1962 until his death in 1971. His work is often cited as the most searing and the most consistently excellent photography from the war, and several of his pictures (“Reaching Out,” for example, featuring a wounded Marine desperately trying to comfort a stricken comrade after a fierce 1966 firefight) and photo essays both encompassed and defined the long, polarizing catastrophe in Vietnam.

One of his most famous collections, published first in LIFE Magazine on 16 April 1965, was entitled "One Ride with Yankee Papa 13".


Burrows died with fellow photojournalists Henri Huet, (Who photographed Dixie Chapelle’s last rites) Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto, when their helicopter was shot down over Laos.

[Burrows (wearing white scarf) helping evacuate wounded on dust offs]


In 2002, Burrows' posthumous book Vietnam was awarded the Prix Nadar award. At the time of the helicopter crash, the photographers were covering Operation Lam Son 719, a massive armoured invasion of Laos by South Vietnamese forces against the Vietnam People's Army and the Pathet Lao.
Larry Burrows

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Punishment fit the crime. I'm good with it

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That killing may have been legal under the Geneva Conventions at the time. Weren't irregular troops like the VC (who dressed in civilian clothes) subject to summary executions?

Plus he killed civilians.

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used by American media to turn the public against Vietnam

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The punishment fit the crime, but let's not pretend a misunderstanding of this photo made the war somehow righteous. There was plenty of lying from the various administrations. The entire thing was a disaster.

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n 1975, Loan fled South Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, eventually emigrating to the United States.[13] Pressure from the U.S. Congress resulted in an investigation by the Library of Congress.[14] In 1978, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) contended that Loan had committed a war crime.[8] They attempted to deport him, but President Jimmy Carter personally intervened to stop the proceedings, stating that "such historical revisionism was folly".[15][16] Loan died on 14 July 1998 in Burke, Virginia, at the age of 67.[1]

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Could you imagine a democrat proclaiming that today?

Now, historical revisionism is the rule rather than the exception.