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Lunchtime in the war zone, 1971

By Joe Gromelski
Published: August 15, 2012
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Dan Evans ©Stars and Stripes
Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, March, 1971: With the smoke from a morning attack by the Viet Cong on a rearmament point still rising in the background, a soldier sits atop a bunker and eats his lunch.

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