I guess we'll always be unappreciated for what we did in "Nam. I worked with three Catholic orphanages during my off-duty hours,as well,as some of my friends did humanitarian things to help out the Vietnamese people.
None of these photos won a Pulitzer Prize. Reason: they wouldn't "sell." To paraphrase a familiar term: "Pulitzers are in the eye of the beholder." The "beholders" weren't interested in any of this because they didn't fuel their righteous indignation, didn't fit in with their desired preconceptions.
Text in Viet Namese from stateside Viet Namese publication, but photos need no explanation.
Sender of these photos went on nearly 100 MEDCAPs during three years in-country. Helped a lot of people. Saved an old woman's scalded foot. Saved a young girl's face from insidious fungus infection. Saved a little kid's life when he was burning up from runaway fever. Not once, ever, did a "media puke" come along or express any interest in doing so.
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That is an amazing photo. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYou checked the rest out, I imagine. Some I had seen and some I had not.
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