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Vietnam: War
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Robert Hodierne, certain that the war in Vietnam would blow over before he could finish college, dropped out in 1966 and went to Saigon to work as a freelance photographer, a stringer in the terms of the day. He stayed until the summer of 1967. After finishing college, he returned again in early 1969 and left in the spring of 1970.
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Barnes, a 58-year-old Marine veteran of Vietnam who earned a Purple Heart for wounds suffered during the 1968 Tet Offensive, is still military through and through. And he knows that in war, things happen "Boom!" - just like that - and triggers are pulled in split-second decisions.
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In truth, the war in Vietnam was lost on the propaganda front, in great measure due to the press's pervasive misreporting of the clear U.S. victory at Tet as a defeat. Forty years is long past time to set the historical record straight.
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Nam Magazine provides the reader with actual first hand accounts from men and women who served in the Vietnam War. It can be viewed as a primary source for those studying the conflict or looking for perspectives regarding this time in history. Many of the writers that contribute served in the US Armed Forces. The stories are true and the publishers do their best to confirm the accuracy of each piece. Some veterans have contributed poetry or pieces from a published work. The magazine has ... provided readers with articles written by Vietnamese individuals.
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This sketch by combat artist Jim Pollock is one of many which he made while in the field in Vietnam. Later, he and the other artists on U. S. Army Combat Art Team IV (Samuel Alexander, Burdell Moody, Daniel Lopez and Ronald Wilson) spent two months in Hawaii completing their paintings of the action in Vietnam. The painting were retained by the U. S. Army for inclusion in U. S. Army Military History War Art Collection in Washington, D. C.
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To answer the criticism, Administration officials said progress was being made in Vietnam. But some Americans began to suspect that the government was not telling the truth about the war. Several news writers, for example, said the number of enemy soldiers killed was much lower than the government reported.
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