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Article: ART OF WAR PERSPECTIVES FROM VIETNAM SHOW SIMILARITIES TO PRESENT.(LIFESTYLE)

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July 27, 2005
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Byline: Kevin Lynch The Capital Times

" 'I'm going to try to find me a Viet Cong' he boasted, adding that the last VC captured was skinned alive and had his throat slit. This is followed by an account of how a friend was killed by a mine and how they scooped up his remains and placed them in a bag."

- Private Jack Schroeder from Milwaukee, Lai Khe 1967 in "They Marched Into Sunlight" by David Maraniss

As the parallels to Vietnam become clearer every day in Iraq and the number of dead grows, the power of the image can clarify undeniable reality.

A new two-man show of photography and paintings provides perspective from two men who ...

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