Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:25 AM 7/8/98 -0500, you wrote: > I believe it was Gen. Loan, and if you knew the whole story of what had >occured in the period immed. before the photo you would use a term other >than suspect As I remember in an interview with Eddie Adams, Gen. Loan (thanks for that spell correction - it was pretty early in the morning and I was typing fast) the man had killed a friend of Loan. So it was more revenge than anything else. In war, things are different than on the streets of the good ol' US of A, so I don't judge the general (he was actually police chief of Saigon I believe) too severely. Not after hearing stories my father tells of American soldiers and what they did in the Philippines for "revenge." War is nothing I ever want to have to go into carrying a gun. In fact, Gen. Loan ended up being a restaurateur in Washington D.C. But that's not my point. The picture turned the U.S. against the war like very few other things. Try that with a pie chart. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Ted Kennedy