The True Story Behind an Iconic Vietnam War Photo Was Nearly Erased — Until Now

www.nytimes.com ^ | FEB. 19, 2019 | By MICHAEL SHAW

[Red Badger]

[G Larry]

How’d he get a salted margarita?

[central_va]

No HIV positive. Any questions?

[Bell Bouy II]

WTF does that mean

[G Larry]

The IV looks like a drink glass.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

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.

[CMSMC]

That was always my concern about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Clean blood supply is still an absolute must.

[central_va]

When ever casualties start to mount expect the corpsmen to start to drain anyone not wounded. Like blood sucking ghouls.

[rlmorel]

"...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!

[central_va]

Funny how corpsmen never tap their own blood.

[Bell Bouy II]

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.

[Bell Bouy II]

I don’t think homo sexual sex practices had infiltrated the main stream back then

[rlmorel]

I had to read the whole article and give them the click, but it irritated me. I despise them, they describe Hue as a "phyyric victory". But I suppose any exposure that man gets is fine by me.

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!)

[rlmorel]

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...)

[Mouton]

The phryic victory thing incensed me too.

[CMSMC]

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.

[Red Badger]

Saline IV.......................

[rlmorel]

They can’t just write a frickking article at the Slimes, they have to inject their leftist sewage into it.

[NTHockey]

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

[Robert A Cook PE]

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.