Posted on 05/23/2014 10:35:41 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
In June 1969, LIFE magazine published a feature that remains as moving and, in some quarters, as controversial as it was when it intensified a nation’s soul-searching 45 years ago. On the cover, a young man’s face — the very model of middle-America’s “boy next door” — along with 11 stark words: “The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Inside, across 10 funereal pages, LIFE published picture after picture and name after name of 242 young men killed in seven days halfway around the world “in connection with the conflict in Vietnam.”
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Exactly. But it’s history documented nonetheless and although I was too small to remember or understand Vietnam, I know my history and this is a nice piece - the motive for creating it notwithstanding.
The intention of the article was to arouse anti war sentiment. IMHO.
God bless every one of them.
Of course how convenient they forget that it was Nixon who got out of the war.
They were all so young. Then my monitor didn’t work right. The images got all blurry.
But according to liberals, democrats and professors...
All the American dead in Vietnam were poor, black and 19...
May be cool (to some) today, but was hardly cool to anyone then. It was a very controversial move by Life, taken by many as support of a growing anti-war movment that was beginning to incorporate targeting men (kids) such as thse in their protests on college campuses.
I do not know a young person today that knows well the story of Vietnam nor perhaps even cares nor would begin to understand the society that sent them there and their sense of duty to each other in going and dying there. An “in between” generation that burns very bright against the much darker majority of that group that has given us the sorry governent and culture we have today.
Three fourths of all Afghanistan War deaths have occurred on Obama’s watch.
I remember well when that issue of Life arrived at our house. Nixon became president in January 1969. Life did not do it in 1968 when the battle deaths were worse.
But of course. What do you think would have happened had they printed such an issue for the weeks of June 3, 1944 or February 19, 1945?
William C. Gearing Jr., 20, Army, SP5, Rochester, N.Y.
From Carl's Virtual Wall webpage:
William Carl Gearing, Jr
Specialist Five
DET 3, B CO, 7TH PSYOPS BN, 4TH PSYOPS GROUP, USARV
Army of the United States
Rochester, New York
July 24, 1948 to May 19, 1969
WILLIAM C GEARING Jr is on the Wall at Panel W24, Line 54
See the full profile or name rubbing for William Gearing
MILITARY DATA:
Service: Army of the United States
Grade at loss: E5
Rank/Rate: Specialist Five
ID No: 51778892
MOS/RATING: 96B20: Intelligence Analyst
Length Service: 00
Unit: DET 3, B CO, 7TH PSYOPS BN, 4TH PSYOPS GROUP, USARV
CASUALTY DATA:
Start Tour: 12/06/1968
Incident Date: 05/19/1969
Casualty Date: 05/19/1969
Age at Loss: 20
Location: Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam
Remains: Body recovered
Casualty Type: Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason: Ground casualty
Casualty Detail: Artillery, rocket, or mortar
URL: www.VirtualWall.org/dg/GearingWC01a.htm
All the American dead in Vietnam were poor, black and 19...
Paul Hardcastle - 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LdMAqUMnM
People who protested the war in Vietnam in 1969 were not against the war, they were against having to go there and get shot at. They were, by the definition of the word, COWARDS!!!!.
There was nothing noble about what they did.
Those who organized the protests were not anti-war.
They just thought we were fighting for the wrong side.
I hope MacNamara is rotting in hell and Melvin Laird joins him soon.
Bullshit!It was an abomination.If I had to go I would have made Lt. Calley look like a saint because if it moved I would have killed it.When I got back I would have made it a mission to kill those who sent me there.This is a stain on American history.The reason it didn’t end in victory is they drafted too many college (smart) kids into the armed forces who said FK you when they said go down this path.
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