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Context is important. Have the stones to do what needs to be done.

Eddie Adams wasn’t trying to make a statement when he took the photo, which went on to win a Pulitzer. In fact, he resented how people interpreted it without knowing the full context. Most Americans had no idea who Nguyen Van Lem was or what he did.

South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan was Lem’s executioner and a friend of the colonel he had murdered. He later immigrated to the U.S. and faced deportation due to being accused of war crimes, but Eddie Adams always vouched for him and apologized for taking the photo.

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The sole survivor of the family Nguyen Van Lem murdered was Huan Nguyen, who was only nine at the time. He later immigrated to the U.S. and went on to become the highest ranked Vietnamese-American officer in the military when he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the US Navy.

Context is important. Have the stones to do what needs to be done. Eddie Adams wasn’t trying to make a statement when he took the photo, which went on to win a Pulitzer. In fact, he resented how people interpreted it without knowing the full context. Most Americans had no idea who Nguyen Van Lem was or what he did. South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan was Lem’s executioner and a friend of the colonel he had murdered. He later immigrated to the U.S. and faced deportation due to being accused of war crimes, but Eddie Adams always vouched for him and apologized for taking the photo. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA71kbJUYAIhTlO?format=jpg&name=small The sole survivor of the family Nguyen Van Lem murdered was Huan Nguyen, who was only nine at the time. He later immigrated to the U.S. and went on to become the highest ranked Vietnamese-American officer in the military when he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the US Navy.

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This is a great point, which I haven't thought enough on; the people who were initially skeptical to the point of their typical absurdity are now the people pushing the hysterical reactions/mandates/experimental drugs.

Can you imagine how frustrating it is for a guy like me? I'm not huge into "conspiracies theories" like Bigfoot or flat earth or even space travel. I don't talk about any of that shit, I know "it's the jews", JFK was murdered by the CIA, etc.. And there I was, genuinely concerned about what I believed could be a deadly pandemic based on shaky info and scare videos which ripped through the internet's darker corners, then vanished. I recall a lot of the videos would be compilations of (undated) footage of Chinese people fainting, and sometimes going into seizue-like fits.

This is what I was afraid of coming to the USA. And when it finally began to be acknowledged, I remember early on hearing about a cop and like two other people who dropped with seizures because they had covid, and I was like "Oh shit it's starting". This is when the toilet paper memes exploded onto the internet. The lockdowns and shit didn't begin for quite a while after this. It was so surreal. I couldn't believe we were still allowing travel into the country- including China and Wuhan itself! I was baffled at how I was warning of this pandemic far before its existence was officially acknowledged, and then became skeptical when bodies didn't start piling up. I was also expecting mass car accidents, since this fainting and seizure activity seemed to be the most severe symptom at first.

Only a few weeks after it was acknowledged officially, the symptoms were specified to "the flu, and pretty much anything else you can find in a medical encyclopedia". Then, a few weeks later, as bodies weren't piling up in the streets, and ERs were deserted, I began to figure it out. Then the mask bullshit began, and I resisted it, saying that if I was sick, I'd stay home or wear a mask- but if I'm healthy, there's no reason to. Honestly, I don't have a problem wearing a mask if I go out when I have a fever or I know I'm sick; simply out of courtesy. I don't like being denied services and thus being forced to wear one, though, even if I'm sick with a cold or w/e.