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To: MotleyGirl70

Too bad that famous "summary execution" photo (ninth row, second column)
isn't printed with a "rest of the story".

The officer (a colonel IIRC) did the job when he'd just been informed that
there'd been executions/torture of South Vietnamese civilians
(whole families) during the attack (Tet?).

IIRC, the photographer eventually apologized to the officer for
the photograph and the misery that came his way because of it.

(I'm not endorsing executing bound prisoners; it's just that there's
more to the photograph than the mere image.)


10 posted on 11/26/2006 10:16:04 AM PST by VOA
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To: VOA

Very interesting; thank you for the information.


11 posted on 11/26/2006 10:17:34 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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