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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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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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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Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:42,
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Part shock, part wonder, and ready to either laugh or cry.
Nguyen Ngoc Loan used to torture prisoners by making them drink soap
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