Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, not at all a comparably situation or event. Gen. Loan acted out of rage and passion, at the height of the Tet Offensive. He certainly violated our concepts of 'proper behavior' in war time, but...What he did was far different from the carefully calculated, I will bet fully sanctioned by higher authorities, gross violations of the Geneva Conventions in a non-battle situation. B. D. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Paul Hardy Carter Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:46 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Best known photo ? Seems to me that act should damn well have ended his career - at the very least. Interesting comparative situation with the recent foul images emanating from Baghdad. P. At 18:09 -0500, 10/5/04, R. Clayton McKee wrote: > >That's about the size of it... The man who was shot was in fact a VC >captain in plain clothes and had been caught in the act of killing a >member of the RVN national policeman, possibly a high-ranking one (by >one report a personal friend of General Loan, the executioner) and >his family. General Loan later said he wished he hadn't done it, >because that photograph and that act pretty much destroyed his career. > > Albest, > > Clayton _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information