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A Little Bit ‘o History

From an email friend:

Those of us of a certain age will remember the attached photo depicting the summary execution of a Viet Cong officer, Nguyen Van Lem, by Saigon’s chief of police. Eddie Adams, the photographer who took the photo (for which he won a Pulitzer), subsequently investigated the story behind it. It seems that Lem had killed an ARVN colonel along with his wife and six children. But it turns out that there was a seventh child, a nine-year old son, who escaped the massacre and lay clinging to his mother’s body for two hours until he was found. This son, named Huan Nguyen, fled to the US after the fall of Saigon, joined the Navy, and was yesterday promoted to the rank of admiral.

https://www.corriere.it/esteri/23_marzo_09/foto-saigon-execution-55-anni-fa-bambino-vietnamita-superstite-strage-diventato-ammiraglio-marina-americana-1302baca-be71-11ed-b743-21e74a13bd9b.shtml?intcmp=emailNLcor_americacina_9marzo2023

Wow…

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