Photo of the Day

No. 362

This is a photo of a nineteen-year-old boy.

The picture’s contradictions sum up the Vietnam War.

A winsome smile.

A penetrating gaze under the shade of an M-1 helmet — the ‘steel pot.’

The succinct description of war by the man who burned Atlanta.

Larry Wayne Chaffin had been in Vietnam for a month when Horst Faas took this picture.

At the time, Larry’s unit…