Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll, June 1969

Life Magazine ^ | 5/23/14 | Life Magazine

[TangledUpInBlue]

In June 1969, LIFE magazine published a feature that remains as moving and, in some quarters, as controversial as it was when it intensified a nation’s soul-searching 45 years ago. On the cover, a young man’s face — the very model of middle-America’s “boy next door” — along with 11 stark words: “The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Inside, across 10 funereal pages, LIFE published picture after picture and name after name of 242 young men killed in seven days halfway around the world “in connection with the conflict in Vietnam.”

[dfwgator]

South Vietnam lost the war.

[Buffalo Head]

"South Vietnam lost the war."

Yes, they lost their war in 1975. We and the other SEATO forces won the war in 1972 in which we were involved.