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Reflections on the Vietnam War

Reflections on the Vietnam War. Think about what you know of the Vietnam War. Children fleeing napalm bombs. Merciless Executions. A Corrupt Government. A shameful defeat. But there’s always more to the story. After 14 months and 17 surgeries she returned home

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Reflections on the Vietnam War

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  1. Reflections on theVietnam War

  2. Think about what you know of the Vietnam War • Children fleeing napalm bombs • Merciless Executions • A Corrupt Government • A shameful defeat

  3. But there’s always more to the story

  4. After 14 months and 17 surgeries she returned home • As an adult, the Vietnamese Government pressured her to become an “Anti-War” symbol • After forcing her South Vietnamese family into grinding poverty • She requested permission to study in Cuba, where she married Bui Huy Tuan • In 1992 they went on their honeymoon to Canada • Once they stepped off the plane they defected • They now live in Ontario and have two children • This is Kim Phuc • Photographer Nick Ut earned a Pulitzer Prize for this picture • Ut promptly took Kim Phuc and the other children to a hospital in Saigon • She was not expected to survive

  5. This is South Vietnam’s Police Chief, Nguyen Ngoc Loan • Loan was highly respected and had a reputation for routing out corruption • Nguyen Cao Qi, the South Vietnamese General and later prime minister, said Loan was the best police chief South Vietnam ever had • This was after Loan had arrested Qi’s cousin for corruption • This is Nguyen Van Lem • The captain of a Viet Cong assassination squad • Lem and his squad had just executed the wives, children, and several relatives of South Vietnamese Police officers • Lem was captured at a ditch where the bodies of 34 executed civilians were found • Adams long sought redemption for the photo that won him a Pulitzer • In 1977 he captured Thai authorities preventing the landing by boat of Vietnamese Refugees • The pictures helped persuade President Carter to admit hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese Refugees to America • Adams wished he won the Pulitzer for this photo • Eddie Adams regretted the impact this photo had, as it became an Anti-War icon • Adams later wrote in ‘Time’: • “The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my Camera” • “Photographs do lie. They are only half-truths. What it didn’t say was ‘What would you do if you were the general in that time and place’ ..” • Adams later apologized in person to General Nguyen for the damage it did to his reputation • Adams praised Loan as the hero of a just cause • When Loan died, Adams wrote • “This guy was a hero. America should be crying” • Adams said he wished he had never taken that photo • This well known photo came to represent the brutality of the Vietnam War • Photographer Eddie Adams earned a Pulitzer Prize for this picture • It was taken on Day 2 of the “Tet Offensive” • The “Tet Offensive” was the largest single offensive maneuver launched by the Viet Cong • Thousands of American and South Vietnamese soldiers had all ready been killed

  6. Contents • Photos • Historical outline • Mai Lai vs Hue Massacre • Abandoning Vietnam • Boat people • Comments by reformed protestors • Vietnam and Korea parrallels • communism death toll • Iraq and Vietnam

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