"While looking at the photographs I was shocked to see the smiling face of someone I used to know. He..."

“While looking at the photographs I was shocked to see the smiling face of someone I used to know. He was only 19 years old. I guess I never realized that 19-year-olds have to die.”



- A Life reader in a response to the Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll, June 1969 (via demons)

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