The background to the original photograph is quite interesting for 'sensitive types'
The Viet Cong communist had apparently been picked up right next to an atrocity where members of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan's family had been found in a mass grave, shot up and dead
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Jahled Three shades of black,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:27,
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Mmmmm
All we really know is he was murdered in cold blood. The rest is stories.
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Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard.,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:37,
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This is still one of my favourite pictures of another human being.
www.doctorhugo.org/firsttime.html
Part shock, part wonder, and ready to either laugh or cry.
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Captain Howdy,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:42,
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Nice antidote
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Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard.,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:45,
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That is indeed utterly wonderful
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Jahled Three shades of black,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:50,
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^ This but even more so.
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 21:26,
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Nguyen Ngoc Loan used to torture prisoners by making them drink soap
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:05,
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Bit like a McMullans pub then.
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Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard.,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:13,
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Only prisoners with potty mouths.
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Captain Howdy,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:16,
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Sounds like a nasty bastard
I read he opened a restaurant in California
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Jahled Three shades of black,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:20,
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According to who?
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Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 21:21,
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I like soup.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sun 13 Jan 2013, 22:40,
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