"There are so many ways to describe what photography from the Vietnam War captured and revealed, but maybe it boils down to what Tim O’Brien shared in “The Things They Carried.”

“I survived,” he wrote in one of the book’s stories, “but it’s not a happy ending.”

The war, which formally concluded on April 30, 1975, still elicits grief for all that was burned into memory and reinforced on film.

The most memorable photographs of that era, with its grisly, muddy, cruel jungle war, were shot by a brave global crew with a wide range of political views and backgrounds."

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