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Vietnam: 20 Years After The War.

U.S. Marines, Fort Worth, Tx.
North Vietnamese veteran.
Pham Thi Tranh.
Lieutenant-General Dong Si Nyguen
General Vo Nyguen Giap.
General Vo Nyguen Giap II
U.S. General Westmoreland I
U.S. veterans, Washington D.C.
North Vietnamese amputee
Frederick Downs, platoon leader amputee.
U.S. helicopter playground.
Robert McNamara, ex U.S. Sec. of Defense.
Entertainer Bob Hope.
Hanoi prison.
Amerasian mother and her children
Journalist Wallace Terry.
Wooden prothesis.
War widows, Hanoi.
Captain Van Chia and bat.
William Colby, former CIA chief.
U.S. army dog tags.
Photographer Tim Page.
Most decorated Vietnamese soldier.
Photographer Eddie Adams
North Vietnamese photographer.
Ex U.S. soldier with Vietnamese wife.
Blind veteran, Hanoi.
Blind veterans.
Bomb craters repurposed as rice paddies.
General Vo Nyguen Giap and wife.
Hanoi Hannah.
Zippo lighters, Saigon.
General Zumwalt.
U.S. General Westmoreland II
War cemetery, North Vietnam.
War memorial, Washington D.C.
American tank relic.
Film maker Oliver Stone.
Tran Van Thuy, filmmaker
Saigon war museum.
My Lai massacre survivor Pham Thi Tranh.

Vietnam: 20 Years After The War.

My first trip to both North and South Vietnam was as a tourist in 1993. So much of what I saw affected me emotionally. The vestiges of the war with America were very much visible. The degree of poverty both in the cities and the countryside was abundantly apparent.
Upon my return I proposed my editor at LIFE magazine to make a photo essay to mark 20 years after the end of the war which led to an expanded essay to include personalities from the US. These portraits are extracted from what is a 100 picture photo essay: my attempt at paying homage to the men and women and children directly affected by this tragic war.

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