# Awesome Vietnam Pictures From Denver Post! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431 "2011-03-29T21:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/1 "2011-03-29T21:17:26Z")
Wow! What a pictorial. This takes a little while to download even with broadband, but its well worth it. Lots of vintage pictures with narratives explaining who, when, and where they were taken. Looking back 35 years, Vietnam. This Denver Post publication really puts out some quality images! [http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/04/30/captured-a-look-back-at-the-vietnam-war-on-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-saigon/1781/](http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/04/30/captured-a-look-back-at-the-vietnam-war-on-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-saigon/1781/) ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/2 "2011-03-30T00:36:50Z")
Thank you. Great link/photos. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/3 "2011-03-30T01:07:59Z")
Scary stuff. Great link. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/4 "2011-03-30T01:19:17Z")
Wonderful photos. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/5 "2011-03-30T01:50:59Z")
Wow. Picture #105: I was surprised to find out a few years ago that Kim Phuc now lives in Ajax, Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/6 "2011-03-30T02:03:52Z")
Wow some of those were really hard to look at but I’m glad I did. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/7 "2011-03-30T12:47:46Z")
Picketing signs were so much more official looking back then. They all look professionally printed and everything. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/8 "2011-03-30T22:06:05Z")
Made me cry. My dad was a baby (18) in the middle of all that mess. Welcome home, all you Vietnam vets. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/9 "2011-03-31T00:31:27Z")
That dumping group of Artillery cases was mind blowing. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/10 "2011-03-31T03:25:04Z")
Does anyone know what kind of cameras and lenses were used to take those pictures? (Obviously there were different kinds.) What did news photographers in Vietnam generally carry with them? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/11 "2011-03-31T03:54:48Z")
#66 and 67: There were a lot of young men who were there at the rallies to support our involvement in Vietnam. I wonder how many of them ended up actually volunteering to go… ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/12 "2011-03-31T04:05:31Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > #66 and 67: There were a lot of young men who were there at the rallies to support our involvement in Vietnam. I wonder how many of them ended up actually volunteering to go… The Hell’s Angels volunteered for the war. They were rejected because most of them had criminal records. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/13 "2011-03-31T04:08:48Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > The Hell’s Angels volunteered for the war. They were rejected because most of them had criminal records. Learn something new everyday. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/14 "2011-03-31T04:45:20Z")
I was just thinking about how #95 looked like the Kent State photo (but stronger, IMHO) when I ran across #104. Lots of them were heartbreaking, but #97 was particularly so. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/15 "2011-03-31T04:56:27Z")
Little known fact about the Kent State shootings: two of the four students who were killed had absolutely _nothing_ to do with the protest, and were just walking to class. One of them, William Schroeder, was even an ROTC cadet. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/16 "2011-03-31T05:46:22Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Little known fact about the Kent State shootings: two of the four students who were killed had absolutely _nothing_ to do with the protest, and were just walking to class. One of them, William Schroeder, was even an ROTC cadet. I thought that was common knowledge. I learned that in high school. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/17 "2011-03-31T05:51:40Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I thought that was common knowledge. I learned that in high school. I didn’t know that. Honestly, the shootings didn’t get taught at all. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/18 "2011-03-31T13:01:41Z")
Picture #32 is of the company I was with in Vietnam, Golf Co, 2nd Bn, 7th Marines. I believe it was taken during Operation Pararie in September 1966. The same picture is on a website I keep for our company. It’s at [Page7A](http://www.golfco7thmar.com/Page7A.html) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/19 "2011-03-31T13:27:30Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > That dumping group of Artillery cases was mind blowing. That’s what I thought too. Its so _vast_. ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431/20 "2011-03-31T13:51:51Z")
Interesting how on MLK Day not much talk about his anti-war stance… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-vietnam-pictures-from-denver-post/576431.md?page=2)