I appreciate the fact that we can't see the grandmothers face, simply the gaze of the child. It is, however, difficult for me to view the photos from Vietnam. I am an age for whom Vietnam evokes painful memories. I'm glad to see that it is now a place of relatively peaceful existence. It was not always so. Regards, Suzanne
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The majority of people in Vietnam today were born after the war, but the scars of war are all around. Just up the road from where I took this picture are hundreds of small round lakes, formed in the craters of our carpet bombs...
But even amongst the people who were in the war, I found little bitterness. 'It was a long time ago", one man told me, "now we are friends." He was a Vietcong soldier who lost 5 brothers and his mother in the fighting. He invited me into his house, and showed me old photos. The striking thing for me was how similar his images were to those of my father who was a doctor during the war. Anyway, for the most part as far as I could see, for many Vietnamese the war is history, (there were many other wars, the French war, the Chinese war, and the American war was just one of them), not the open wound it still is to many Americans.
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Wow - lovely. Very moving.
Great shot!
Beautiful !
i like the overall mood of this photo. the colour and the expression combines well.looks sooo different from our daily urban life..
sos feo eh
The golden light of the day! I love the little purple ribbon.
I imagine you just strolling along taking pictures of people next to that canal as they walked on by. Excellent.
love those warm colors. superb shot!
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I appreciate the fact that we can't see the grandmothers face, simply the gaze of the child. It is, however, difficult for me to view the photos from Vietnam. I am an age for whom Vietnam evokes painful memories. I'm glad to see that it is now a place of relatively peaceful existence. It was not always so. Regards, Suzanne
The majority of people in Vietnam today were born after the war, but the scars of war are all around. Just up the road from where I took this picture are hundreds of small round lakes, formed in the craters of our carpet bombs...
But even amongst the people who were in the war, I found little bitterness. 'It was a long time ago", one man told me, "now we are friends." He was a Vietcong soldier who lost 5 brothers and his mother in the fighting. He invited me into his house, and showed me old photos. The striking thing for me was how similar his images were to those of my father who was a doctor during the war. Anyway, for the most part as far as I could see, for many Vietnamese the war is history, (there were many other wars, the French war, the Chinese war, and the American war was just one of them), not the open wound it still is to many Americans.
Beautiful combination of history and hope.
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