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Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll, June 1969
Life Magazine ^ | 5/23/14 | Life Magazine

Posted on 05/23/2014 10:35:41 AM PDT by 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.”

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To: Buffalo Head

South Vietnam lost the war.


101 posted on 05/27/2014 8:33:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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"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.

102 posted on 05/27/2014 11:21:42 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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