Famous photos colored

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Molitoth

I'm too young to have lived through this, so I had to go read the story.... amazing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Quang_Duc

I don't want to get this thread tossed into DC, but the situation in Vietnam was very, very complicated, and the situation in the US for/against that war, and the fight on Communism, etc., etc., was far more complex than "liberal hippy peaceniks versus true Americans", and Nixon's supposed Silent Majority.

That picture powerfully brings home that the government we were supporting, South Vietnam, had deep issues also.

And once the corrupt and incorrigible (but stoutly anti-Communist) President of South Vietnam was ousted (with the tacit approval of the CIA), here is what happened to him, by his own military.




Neither the South Vietnamese nor the US was ever able to find stable political leadership after Diem's ouster, to the vast detriment of our efforts there.

Vietnam -- a very f'ed up situation all around.