Highly recommend this story ..it is both heart felt and well told . I met david burnett in Florida and he is a special person. I was an Army Intelligence group at the time of this photo and was due to be called up . We were next but the war ended before we were needed . I can remember the photograph from its first publishing and it was heavily utilized by the anti war movement .
What an honor Roger!
I believe a few photos from that conflict were instrumental in ending it, and that was one of them. I also remember the sudden end of “Eisenhowerian naivety” when Life published the cover of Lt. Cali about the My Lai massacre.
I wouldn’t even try to account for my missed moments in the face of a war correspondent changing film while something so tragic and iconic like that was happening.
-Marc
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