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Old 01-04-2007, 07:12 PM  
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South of the DMZ 1966
"The color photographs of tormented Vietnamese villagers and wounded American conscripts that Larry Burrows took and LIFE published, starting in 1962, certainly fortified the outcry against the American presence in Vietnam," Susan Sontag wrote in her essay "Looking at War," in the December 9, 2002, New Yorker. "Burrows was the first important photographer to do a whole war in color ? another gain in verisimilitude and shock."


One Week's Dead May 28 ha June 3, 1969
By 1969, Americans were dying in Vietnam each week by the hundreds. Total losses had reached a staggering 36,000. To personalize the figures, LIFE ran the name, hometown and picture of each serviceman whom the Pentagon said was killed during the Memorial Day week.


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