1. The overall focus of the link

    The article named “The war in Vietnam—A story in Photographs” focus on tell readers that the photographs took by the military photographers during the war in Vietnam are very important for history. It is good for people to study the war because the photographs make the scene of war reappeared.  We can see both the soldiers and photographers were hard. 

2.  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam-photos/images/op-yellowstone.gif

     This picture shows us four soldiers sitting around and listening guitar songs on January 18, 1968. The guy in the middle plays a guitar for the four listeners. Everyone sit on the gas pail and look very sad. The left soldier is looking at the ground. Another soldier who wears glasses looks like want to say something.

    It tells me how the American soldiers treat their lives during the war in Vietnam when they have a hard day. I think everyone in the military is the tough guy. Although the life is hard, they overcome difficulties and find their own ways for entertainment.

3. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam-photos/images/sky-trooper.gif

    This picture shows a sky trooper who use his own hamlet as a calendar after he left the 1st Cavalry Division. He drew a line when each month finished. The calendar on the hamlet shows 12 months (from March to February next year) have passed. Maybe there are some soldiers did the same thing like what this sky trooper have done.

   I think this is a special phenomenon during the wartime. Soldiers miss their family or a troop they just leaved; so they use the hamlet which they wear everyday as a tool to record months. The same as the photographs which took by photographers, the letters on the hamlet also are the stories. It tells people what mood a soldier once had.

4. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam-photos/images/wounded-comrade.gif

    This picture shows us four soldiers are carrying a wounded soldier though a swampy area. They look very worried because they want to carry the soldier to a safe place where can make him alive.

    I see a friendship and responsibility in this picture. They stubbornly persist and never give up their friends. I think we need this spirit no matter what the situation is. This spirit make a country won the war.

 5. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam-photos/images/wet-going.gif

     This picture shows us two soldiers are walking in the river (wet going) to accomplish a research mission. They must hold the gun all the way to make sure the gun not wet, or the gun will not work. The soldier at the back is smiling.

     I think the soldiers are brave and hard. They are not scared by difficulties. They walk in the river and confront hard environment, but they keep good mood to adapt it.

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