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Posted: 5/21/2017 3:15:31 PM EDT

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I guess I'm the odd man out.

I came here expecting to see this one.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Inselian.jpg

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Everyone understands that photo.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:19:09 PM EDT

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The only good commie is a dead commie.

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Posted: 5/21/2017 3:25:11 PM EDT

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Thank you for sharing this OP.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:25:37 PM EDT

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Did I make it in before the bullshit post from Snopes?

Good shot.

Fuck snopes' mental gymnastics

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:28:13 PM EDT

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I wonder where that Model 38 is now?

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:30:04 PM EDT

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This is the ARVN guy putting a .38 into the VC's temple?

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Chief of the national police, IIRC.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:31:17 PM EDT

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Wow.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:31:33 PM EDT

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Funny how the YouTube link never seems to work on things like this.
Almost like YouTube doesn't want you to share it

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:32:23 PM EDT

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Fuck Commies, if Loan was alive today I'd buy him a fucking beer.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:35:00 PM EDT

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Came here to disagree and post up the same photo.

Apparently we agree.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:35:12 PM EDT

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I saw it when it was televised for the first time in 1968 while Tet was still going on.

I was 12 and it was the first time I had ever seen anyone die. That POS dropped like a sack of shit onto his left side. The film showed the blood shooting out of the right side of his head.

I knew he was VC and such there was no reason to save his life.

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Same here but I was 11 or there abouts.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:41:04 PM EDT

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I knew it would be that pic.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:42:53 PM EDT

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Wow. I never knew this.

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Posted: 5/21/2017 3:49:41 PM EDT

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Chief of the national police, IIRC.

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Without looking at the OP:

This is the ARVN guy putting a .38 into the VC's temple?

Chief of the national police, IIRC.

That is correct.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:51:48 PM EDT

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I knew it would be that pic.

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+1

SAT CONG.

Posted: 5/21/2017 3:57:51 PM EDT

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This.

The picture was not "misunderstood," so much as it was "deliberately played as anti-war propaganda" by the liberal media in the United States.

I would have shot the son of a bitch in the head myself.

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Exactly. Sumbitch deserved to die. Gotdamn murdering commie.

Posted: 5/21/2017 4:00:07 PM EDT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYG9yfyTJ4

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I believe he ended up in Annandale, Va. and owned/ managed a pizza place.

Posted: 5/21/2017 4:19:21 PM EDT

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What's funny is that because of a "want to buy a revolver" thread, I've got my 649-1 right here next to me.

Posted: 5/21/2017 4:37:14 PM EDT

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General Nguyen Ngoc Loan

The family was from one of his chief aids IIRC as head of the South Vietnamese National Police.

I met him once and shook his hand at the Eden Center in Falls Church.

I even had to report it to Security as a 'random foreign contact'.

Posted: 5/21/2017 4:37:57 PM EDT

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Me either. Good shoot

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Posted: 5/21/2017 4:44:00 PM EDT

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From the photographer Eddie Adams

Eddie Adams Talk About The Saigon Execution Photo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv11KilBpHQ

Posted: 5/21/2017 4:46:54 PM EDT

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I always thought the guy was a VC spy. Didn't know he was a VC serial killer murdering women and children

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Same here.

The POS deserved a .38 to the temple.

Posted: 5/21/2017 4:57:00 PM EDT

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Also guessed it'd be this photo...I'd always liked Eddie Adams' photos, but years ago, after hearing of his take on the photo, his friendship with Loan and his defending Loan's action at every step, nothing but respect. Its gotta really suck taking such an iconic photo and have it almost universally taken out of context.

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:03:19 PM EDT

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This.

The picture was not "misunderstood," so much as it was "deliberately played as anti-war propaganda" by the liberal media in the United States.

I would have shot the son of a bitch in the head myself.

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good shoot

This.

The picture was not "misunderstood," so much as it was "deliberately played as anti-war propaganda" by the liberal media in the United States.

I would have shot the son of a bitch in the head myself.

This

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:09:51 PM EDT

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Knew what picture it was going to be before I even clicked on the thread, also knew it was a good shoot.

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this

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:17:24 PM EDT

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good shoot

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Posted: 5/21/2017 5:24:14 PM EDT

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SAT CONG.

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Caca Dau!

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:26:43 PM EDT

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Knew what picture it was going to be before I even clicked on the thread, also knew it was a good shoot.

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It's the picture I guessed it was.

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:28:06 PM EDT

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Good shoot.

I've heard the backstory, and seen the pic a zillon times.

But never really noticed it was a shrouded S&W .38

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:29:31 PM EDT

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The making of a good communist.

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:29:41 PM EDT

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I knew what picture it would be before even clicking this thread.

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:33:28 PM EDT

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I got in country about a year later. I never took a prisoner. I saw what the commie scum did to villiagers. Did I mention I never took a prisoner.

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:34:25 PM EDT

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Knew what picture it was going to be before I even clicked on the thread, also knew it was a good shoot.

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Posted: 5/21/2017 5:35:09 PM EDT

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My dad was involved with bringing that guy down.

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Do tell more.

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:37:12 PM EDT

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Tag

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:41:40 PM EDT

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The one good point in that campy 1968 war film called "The Green Berets". Col. Kirby played by John Wayne was asked by David Jansen why the VC prisoner was being rough handled amd Col. Kirby replied, "Out here due process is a bullet."

While that film is often roundly panned for its quality, that point stood out as being the truth in showing how ruthless the Viet Cong were to the local citizens. The South Vietnamese had no time or patience to deal with the villany of those people.

Posted: 5/21/2017 5:44:01 PM EDT

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Its weird to think about that guy and about what that picture ment to me growing up.

I thought that it captured the brutality of human beings, which after reflecting on it is nothing compared to what ISIS does every single day.

The picture that I have the most difficulty with is the Napalm Girl photo.
Every time I see that it fucks me up

Combination of everything I've been brought up to protect, exposed and hurting beyond imagination

Posted: 5/21/2017 9:00:27 PM EDT

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My uncle was there, has a shoebox full of pics, several are moments just before the shot.

Posted: 5/21/2017 9:01:22 PM EDT

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I wonder where that Model 38 is now?

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The gun would be worth a lot to collectors.

Posted: 5/21/2017 9:04:52 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/21/2017 9:10:45 PM EDT

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In before topsecret tells us that all truth comes form the Deep State, NYT and WaPo and that anyone believes anything else is a far-right wing nut job conspiracy theory.

Posted: 5/21/2017 9:12:47 PM EDT

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On February 1, 1968, Brig. Gen. Loan executed a Viet Cong officer. What the photograph does not tell you is that the prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem,
was found at the site of a mass grave that held at least seven police
family members - which is what led Brig. Gen. Loan to execute this man.
Lem’s widow later confirmed that her husband was a member of the
National Liberation Front (Viet Cong).

Posted: 5/21/2017 9:15:19 PM EDT

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I already knew the story behind the photo, but it's good to be reminded about how dishonest and manipulative the Liberal media can be.

Posted: 5/21/2017 9:32:41 PM EDT

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Saw it the other day.

Never knew all those details.

Posted: 5/21/2017 9:46:57 PM EDT

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Never knew that. Thanks

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Being from Europe you were told the opposite most likely.

Posted: 5/21/2017 9:52:20 PM EDT

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I must be psychic, I knew it was that picture.

Posted: 5/21/2017 9:54:45 PM EDT

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This.

The picture was not "misunderstood," so much as it was "deliberately played as anti-war propaganda" by the liberal media in the United States.

I would have shot the son of a bitch in the head myself.

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good shoot

This.

The picture was not "misunderstood," so much as it was "deliberately played as anti-war propaganda" by the liberal media in the United States.

I would have shot the son of a bitch in the head myself.

yep.