They lied! Yet again...
Apr. 29th, 2005 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsandersonThirty Years at 300 Millimeters
By Hubert Van Es
HONG KONG
"THIRTY years ago I was fortunate enough to take a photograph that has become perhaps the most recognizable image of the fall of Saigon - you know it, the one that is always described as showing an American helicopter evacuating people from the roof of the United States Embassy. Well, like so many things about the Vietnam War, it's not exactly what it seems. In fact, the photo is not of the embassy at all; the helicopter was actually on the roof of an apartment building in downtown Saigon where senior Central Intelligence Agency employees were housed."
Thirty years ago, we hauled our butts out of the last, biggest dustup of Imperial America, and O! how soon we forgot as older (not up) we grew.
(The hidden link takes you to an excellent NYT op-ed piece by the Dutch photographer who took the famous picture from the fall of Sai Gon. Yes, you'll need a login and password.)
By Hubert Van Es
HONG KONG
"THIRTY years ago I was fortunate enough to take a photograph that has become perhaps the most recognizable image of the fall of Saigon - you know it, the one that is always described as showing an American helicopter evacuating people from the roof of the United States Embassy. Well, like so many things about the Vietnam War, it's not exactly what it seems. In fact, the photo is not of the embassy at all; the helicopter was actually on the roof of an apartment building in downtown Saigon where senior Central Intelligence Agency employees were housed."
Thirty years ago, we hauled our butts out of the last, biggest dustup of Imperial America, and O! how soon we forgot as older (not up) we grew.
(The hidden link takes you to an excellent NYT op-ed piece by the Dutch photographer who took the famous picture from the fall of Sai Gon. Yes, you'll need a login and password.)
