Fifty years ago, Life magazine stunned the country
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/0...78e2b82dd8
High school photos, graduation shots and formal military and battlefield portraits showed Americans the bloody price of the Vietnam War.
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In this May 1969 file photo, a wounded U.S. paratrooper of the 101st Airborne Division is helped through a blinding rainstorm by two medics after being evacuated from Dong Ap Bia during the 10-day battle for Hamburger Hill. (Hugh Van Es/AP)
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