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…
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