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Good guys: 'We Were Soldiers' and '40 Days and 40 Nights.'
"We Were Soldiers," the new Mel Gibson movie, takes the Vietnam War away from the reporters, novelists, and film directors who have long portrayed it as a uniquely strange and alienating experience. In this version, Vietnam is no longer America's "rock-and-roll war" fought in the jungle by hallucinating hipsters and dazed rednecks, by big-city blacks and racists who wanted to kill "gooks." "We Were Soldiers" turns the war over to the white males who were simply brave -- the kind of Americans who loved their God, revered their wives, and honored the Asian enemy. The movie is a piece of hero worship devoted to a commander who embodies these virtues -- Lieutenant Colonel ...
- North Vietnam.1969. A bombed dike, North Vietnamese soldiers in active training...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Marc Riboud January 1, 1969 700+ words
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- An Loc. South-Vietnamese soldiers patroling. In the background,...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Bruno Barbey January 1, 1972 700+ words
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- VIETNAM. North Vietnam. Hanoi. A soldier of the North Vietnamese army,...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Abbas January 1, 1976 700+ words
...1976 VIETNAM. North Vietnam. Hanoi. A soldier of the North Vietnamese army, returning from the front. Keywords...geographical) VIETNAM. North Vietnam. Hanoi. A soldier of the North Vietnamese army, returning from the front. VIETNAM...
- VIETNAM. North Vietnam. Hanoi. A soldier of the North Vietnamese army,...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Abbas January 1, 1975 700+ words
...1975 VIETNAM. North Vietnam. Hanoi. A soldier of the North Vietnamese army, returning from the front with the...geographical) VIETNAM. North Vietnam. Hanoi. A soldier of the North Vietnamese army, returning from the front with the...
- VIETNAM. South Vietnam. Da Nang. After their capture of the city, two soldiers...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Abbas January 1, 1975 700+ words
...Nang. After their capture of the city, two soldiers of the North Vietnamese patrol the streets. Keywords: South East...Nang. After their capture of the city, two soldiers of the North Vietnamese patrol the streets. NORTH VIETNAM. Danang...
- Ho Chi Minh Trail paved way to victory, North Vietnamese say.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Plaster, John L. April 28, 2000 700+ words
...Vietnam asked a retired North Vietnamese officer this question...stopped the inevitable North Vietnamese triumph. Instead...that attrited our soldiers outside Danang came down the Trail. The North Vietnamese regiments that fought...
- Russian-built North Vietnamese T54 tank destroyed by US B52 bombers, An Loc....
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Bruno Barbey January 1, 1972 700+ words
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- Russian-built North Vietnamese T54 tank destroyed by US B52 bombers. (PAR97896)
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Bruno Barbey January 1, 1972 700+ words
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