Posted on 02/20/2019 11:16:27 AM PST by Red Badger
A celebrated book and a major museum exhibition revealed the harrowing tale behind the image of a wounded Marine. Their version was wrong.
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The fighting in Hue City, Vietnam, was as intense and confusing as anything the Marines there had ever seen. It was mid-February 1968, and American and South Vietnamese forces were desperately trying to counter a surprise onslaught that became known as the Tet offensive. First Battalion, Fifth Marines had breached the city’s historic Citadel. Radio communications were out. From front-line positions, Marines ran back a block or two to give updates to commanding officers and to receive orders. Many of them had already been wounded or killed. As more casualties accumulated, Marines in Charlie Company’s Third Platoon helped lift a gravely wounded and unconscious infantryman onto the front of a tank; the man was sprawled on a wooden door that served as a stretcher. No more than a few blocks away, through streets littered with rubble and alive with gunfire, the tank stopped to pick up three Marines who had been injured by a mortar blast. One man’s face was swathed in bandages. He was helped aboard and situated near the tank’s back end. A photographer, John Olson, approached and began to document the moment. His photo of the unconscious Marine lying on the tank surrounded by his wounded brothers-in-arms now stands among the iconic images of the Vietnam War. Some of Olson’s photos from the battle were included in a photo essay in Life magazine on March 8, 1968. The picture of the wounded Marine was the largest photo in the feature, published as a two-page spread. Both painterly and heart-wrenching, it was a raw a
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How’d he get a salted margarita?
No HIV positive. Any questions?
WTF does that mean
The IV looks like a drink glass.
On initial glance, it appears the guy holding the iv bottle, if you look at it, it looks like a drink that’s salted on top.
I’m guessing that’s what he meant.
That was always my concern about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Clean blood supply is still an absolute must.
When ever casualties start to mount expect the corpsmen to start to drain anyone not wounded. Like blood sucking ghouls.
I always thought that was standard procedure!
Funny how corpsmen never tap their own blood.
Never crossed my mind even swilling 100’s of salted Margaritas straight up but maybe because I had 2 high school buds from my very small town killed over there in a short period of time 65/66 and to view the pain and anguish only reminds me of what they may have gone through.
I don’t think homo sexual sex practices had infiltrated the main stream back then
Remember this picture?
I worked with a woman for many years, and my wife and I went out to dinner with her and her husband...we got talking military, and he said he was a Corpsman in the USMC in Vietnam, and his wife piped in "He was in a famous picture". When she described it, I knew exactly which one it was! (Her husband is the guy with the BCD (Birth Control Device) glasses!)
LOL, I guess THEY have to be upright to do it! (kind of how the airlines tell you to put the mask on yourself before you put one on the kid...)
The phryic victory thing incensed me too.
True. And we need to make sure the blood supply is clean... says someone whose family still can not donate blood because we ate English beef in the ‘80s.
Saline IV.......................
They can’t just write a frickking article at the Slimes, they have to inject their leftist sewage into it.
Marines can find alcohol ANYWHERE (Force Recon found on remote island, drunk). If there is none, they will make it out of ANYTHING (We made it out of potato skins on board ship). If they don’t have the time to make it, they will drink ANYHOW (Aqua Velve strained through bread).
Semper fi,
Do or die
This set of Life photographs were chosen to illustrate the Soviet-North Vietnamese Army’s “victory” during the Tet Offensive. NOT to highlight the sacrifices these Marines made to defeat the VC invaders.
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