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A Different Face in War
Captured by famed photojournalist Horst Faas in 1965, this eerie image from the Vietnam War offers a raw glimpse into the face of the soldiers who face their grim reality. The unsettling eyes of a young American soldier are only intensified by the poignant message scrawled across his helmet: “War is Hell.”
The Vietnam conflict ignited a new breed of youth-led protests across the U.S., and many of those drafted into the jungle witnessed unspeakable carnage. Horst’s photo freezes in time the irony and tragedy gripped a generation: young men sent to fight a brutal war that they—and a growing segment of the American populace—increasingly questioned.
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