월남전, 파트3: 국가의 손들: The Vietnam War, Part III: Hands of a Nation

ALAN TAYLOR

The photojournalist Eddie Adams, who covered the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, not only captured the action and chaos but took the time to get up close to the Vietnamese people whenever he could. In 1968, he undertook a project called "Hands of a Nation," taking intimate photos of the hands of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. Their hands were busy doing so many things then: reaching out for medicine, grasping weapons, straining against bindings, soothing, praying, rebuilding. Adams photographed hands young and old, belonging to the healthy and the wounded, the living and the dead. 

• The loneliness and desperation of a refugee in Vietnam in August 1968 

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• A South Vietnamese soldier aims his pistol in August 1968. 

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• A Vietnamese child seeks assurance in August 1968. 

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• Hands in utter confusion belong to Vietnamese civilians attempting to assemble a carbine (rifle) in August 1968, as part of the government of South Vietnam's civilian mobilization program where civilians learn how to protect themselves from attacking communists. 

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• A farmer plants rice in the Delta region in Vietnam in August 1968. 

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• The sweet life amid the war in Vietnam in August 1968 

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• A soldier ties a prisoner's hands in Vietnam, August of 1968. 

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• War's ugliness is depicted in the hands of the homeless and ill reaching out for medicine from a visiting military doctor in the city of Hue, August 1968. 

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• A government soldier squeezes the trigger before releasing the safety on his M16 rifle, a weapon some of the government troops are issued, in Vietnam in August 1968. 

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• A Buddhist monk presses his hands together as an expression of gratitude in August 1968. 

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• A 13-year-old boy who lost his arm when he tripped on a booby trap covers his face in Vietnam in August 1968. 

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• A woman in Cholon lays brick in mortar. This is her third effort in rebuilding her home in August 1968. 

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• A soldier with a grenade in Vietnam in August 1968 

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• Hands hold white rice in Vietnam. 

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• The war is over for this Viet Cong soldier, August 1968. 

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• The Cholon district of Saigon in June of 1968 

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• A Vietnamese woman applies makeup, August 1968. 

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• A medic patches up a hand of a wounded soldier during heavy fighting in August 1968. 

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• Army soldiers hold rifles in Vietnam in an undated photo. 

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• Hands of the homeless and ill reach out for medicine from a visiting military doctor in the city of Hue. 

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• A Viet Cong soldier who was captured during street fighting in Saigon smokes a cigarette while being questioned by government soldiers in August 1968. 

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• A person with a prosthetic arm in Vietnam in August 1968 

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• A seriously wounded North Vietnamese trooper rests his head on his hands after he was brought in by two Marines to an evacuation point at Dai Do, Vietnam. The enemy soldier was captured during one of several Marine charges on the village of Dai Do. The Marines, while retreating from the heavy enemy fire, took the wounded enemy with them to this evacuation point along the Cua Viet River. 

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• A Vietnamese woman’s fingers clutch joss sticks as she prays for a departed one in August 1968. 

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• Waiting to be evacuated, a South Vietnamese soldier patiently nurses his wounded arm in August 1968. 

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• A Vietnamese child seeks assurance in Vietnam in August of 1968. #

  Eddie Adams/AP