It was 40 years ago, today,

that the pic known as 'napalm girl' was first published. Back in the day, before the internet, we had Life, Look and The Sat Eve Post to bring us pics and news. UNTIL, they showed too much info from the dirty little war in Viet Nam, and the Nixon admin raised postal rates to put 'em out of business, cuz they wouldn't stop. Week after week we saw pics of the dead and dying as over 50,000 US soldiers were killed and, hundreds of thousands were wounded, not to mention hundreds of thousands of innocent Vietnmese civilians. For what? We got run outta Saigon in disgrace a couple years later, but the Pubs had gotten their military/industrial war machine up and running for about 10 years, in a little country on the other side of the world. Unless you lived thru it, I don't think you'd realize what a HUGE country-splitting mess it was and once it was over we were all sure it could never happen again. Then we got W, and Iraq. Unbelievable, but true....

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