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Originally posted by Webby
KRL:
Of course!
Dunno how long it will take to see some of his pics published. It took two years after the end of Vietnam when... think it was Time mag that first published some - including the image of a young girl running naked down a street with napam on her back?
The good side is that "kid" is still alive and living in LA these days :-)
But gotta say... the "impact" of war on people is... astounding.
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We had a family friend years ago that fought in Vietnam and got captured and was a POW. He said the North Vietnamese to fuck with the American prisoners would tie their hands behind their back and then put a burlap bag over their heads and tie it tight around their neck. Then they would untie the top of the bag and throw in huge rats and retie it. So the soldiers would start running around and going nutzo while the rats would be biting their faces inside the bag.
They also would break bottles and make the guys sit naked on the broken bottle.
They'd break guys bones with steel rods and then not give them any medical attention.
Really fucked up stories. He turned into a bit of a whacko from being in captivity and tortured so harshly. Haven't seen him in years and I think he eventually stuck a gun to his head and committed suicide.