How Young Soldiers Saw Life in Wartime Vietnam – The New York Times

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How Young Soldiers Saw Life in Wartime Vietnam

A new exhibit of photos made by young soldiers in war zones features poignant images of daily life in a distant, and dangerous, land.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/how-young-soldiers-saw-life-in-wartime-vietnam/

Yet these photographs were taken not by professionals but by young grunts barely out of high school. Grinning wide-eyed at this strange land where they had been sent, often against their will, in circumstances they did not fully understand, with little foreboding of what might be in store, their photographs of ordinary wartime days have a special poignancy.