From Esther, on Tue, 15 Dec 1998 02:11:44 GMT
I am currently a High School senior taking a class which specifically is looking at the war in Vietnam. I know I don't have any type of first hand expierience or even experience of that era, but from what i've learned, and what I have gotten from the teachers/family members/friends who were alive at that time, it seems like these pictures capture the innocence of children, not necessarily the feeling specifally in Vietnam and how it effected them. We've all at one point or another gazed over to a camara and someone has snapped a picture, I think some of them are great, intesnse photos, you've captureed somehting about the children that's undescribable. But, at the same time, I don't quite think they're showing what you wanted (unless I misunderstood). I htink if you would have gotten their surroundings, what their villages looked like, how their houses were, this is kind of a reach, but if there was a child kind of stranded in the middle of a field, images like that I think would have gotten your purpose across much more clearly.
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