Posted on Feb 1, 2017
Nguyễn Văn Lém execution and Kim Phuc video
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Nguyễn Văn Lém (referred to as Captain Bảy Lốp or Ew Tu) (1931 or 1932 – 1 February 1968) was a member of the National Liberation Front who was summarily executed in Saigon by General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan during the Tet Offensive. The execution was captured on film by photojournalist Eddie Adams. The execution was explained at the time as being the consequence of Lém's admitted guerrilla activity and war crimes, and otherwise due to a general "wartime mentality".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_L%C3%A9m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_L%C3%A9m
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there are two sides to this story... and the Photographer failed to Publish the entire story about the reason behind the Photo and the execution...
No One was told that this VC executed was Caught immediately after he broke in to the Col's family Home... and Murdered 3 of The Col.s Family Members (Wife Child and Brother... ) and was the leader of the Hit squad that had take out several other families in the immediate neighborhood...
the rest of the squad was killed in Action or trying to escape in shoot outs with RVN forces...
... The US had Nothing to do with it Other Than the Bleeding Heart Reporter and Photographer...
No One was told that this VC executed was Caught immediately after he broke in to the Col's family Home... and Murdered 3 of The Col.s Family Members (Wife Child and Brother... ) and was the leader of the Hit squad that had take out several other families in the immediate neighborhood...
the rest of the squad was killed in Action or trying to escape in shoot outs with RVN forces...
... The US had Nothing to do with it Other Than the Bleeding Heart Reporter and Photographer...
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Sgt Wayne Wood
Last i looked (years ago) the Col retired near Wash DC and was running a pizza restaurant.
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PO3 John Wagner
Sgt Wayne Wood - Should turn him loose on the liberal elite who welcome socialists and praise dictators like Castro ... I'll take a family size pizza with liberal brain toppings.. they'd be a week coming up with enough to make more than a dusting.
"Send it back, order another!"
"Send it back, order another!"
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Keith Volanto
The photographer Eddie Adams was hardly a "bleeding heart" -- that is unfair characterization of the man. To quote Wikipedia quoting Time Magazine: "Adams would later lament the impact of the photo. On Loan and his photograph, Adams wrote in 1998:
"Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ... What the photograph didn't say was, "What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?". ... This picture really messed up his life. He never blamed me. He told me if I hadn't taken the picture, someone else would have, but I've felt bad for him and his family for a long time. ... I sent flowers when I heard that he had died and wrote, "I'm sorry. There are tears in my eyes."
"Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ... What the photograph didn't say was, "What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?". ... This picture really messed up his life. He never blamed me. He told me if I hadn't taken the picture, someone else would have, but I've felt bad for him and his family for a long time. ... I sent flowers when I heard that he had died and wrote, "I'm sorry. There are tears in my eyes."
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