tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26737277598840630.post4331337492574711845..comments2024-02-29T22:53:37.034-05:00Comments on Predictable History, Unpredictable Past: Pics of the Day: Nice Syrian Friends You've Got There, Barry, Insane, Lurch & Marco (UPDATED)Sophie Ro, PHUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05629943376188646941noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26737277598840630.post-90973814598939720402013-06-18T12:01:35.273-04:002013-06-18T12:01:35.273-04:00..erm, I was posting under an alternate sobriquet .....erm, I was posting under an alternate sobriquet above and neglected to add the Wiki Link:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Ngoc_Loan<br /><br />k6whphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459579212118994056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26737277598840630.post-35596815259480367542013-06-18T11:46:45.547-04:002013-06-18T11:46:45.547-04:00RWM..
..as a comment, I would like to point out t...RWM..<br /><br />..as a comment, I would like to point out that the picture of General Loan executing the summarily Viet Cong prisoner, while certainly not out of place, is perhaps a little more understandable that the grisly atrocities in your collection. I refer you and your readers to the Wiki Article for further enlightenment:<br /><br /><br /><br />Excerpted:<br /><br />"The photo won Adams the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, though he was later said to have regretted its impact. The image became an anti-war icon. Concerning Loan and his famous photograph, Adams wrote in Time:<br /><br />"'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?"'<br /><br />"Adams later apologized in person to General Nguyễn and his family for the damage it did to his reputation. When Loan died of cancer in Virginia, 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.'"[SQ 150 Commanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698191833994193499noreply@blogger.com