Iconic Photos From the Vietnam War

The helmet says it all, war is hell.

it says iconic not ironic

why it happens in this world……………………….very sad

Almost two years of pure hell, and why????????????????

I think he was being ironic by misreading iconic and appearing moronic.

“IRONIC”- you’ll never know until you get there…. try to get in vietnam and look for yourself all the meaning of IRONIC..(war is hell).. and im telling you when you get back home you tell to your own self how ironic “vietnam war” is..
(how would you say killing of 540 innocent people, ages 2 – 70 years old in one day)??? 1 whole village in a day….

Ohhhhhhhhh… very sad….

I wanted to be there, not really knowing what I was getting into,but I never got there.

steve – are you calling the My Lai Massacre “b.s.”? the only thing that is b.s. about My Lai is that only Calley was convicted, and only served 3 1/2 years of house arrest.

Bobby,
Lt Calley was ordered to kill everyone in that village from Col to a General in 1968. I met him in 1971. Once it became public, shit hit the fan and asses were covered in the higher up. IF Lt Calley didn’t follow orders, he was SCREWED. He followed orders and he was still screwed. The Col was the only other who got demoted, but no brig time.

I was an Air Force Staff Sgt (in house) sniper. (Combat Controllers)

For all you armchair warriors out there, Shut up cause you have no idea what we went through over there. If you were that brave you would have been in Iraq. We WON most of battles we fought over there over there. Two of the biggest and hardest were the TET offense & Hue battle in North Vietnam. Read up on them sometime. But some asshole higher ups said we lost, not even a draw.

The history channel has an excellent unbiased view on the Vietnam war. (conflict) It was on about 1 1/2 months ago or so. FIND IT & WATCH IT, all you arm chair warriors out there.

I also have to say that the NVArmy and “Charlie” knew how to fight with gorilla warfare and they were damn good.

Warren, all good except I was there ’67 – ’68, first tour, all over the I Corps, and at Khe Sanh, Con Thien, Quang Tri, etc. Tet was all over SOUTH Vietnam, and Hue is north of Quang Tri, but in SOUTH Vietnam. The battle for Hue, along with Khe Sanh, was part of Tet, not separate. Years later Ho Chi Minh said in writing that Tet went so bad for them he consider ending hostilities. It was the American media, such a Walter Conkrite, extolling their “wins” that changed his mind.
Deloros, those of us who were there thank you. We’re making sure now the reception the Vietnam vets got back then doesn’t happen to the guys and gals returning now. God bless you.

Hm, So i am happy with this nevertheless not absolutely positive, thus i’m gonna research a little more.