JÚLIA GREGORI
JÚLIA GREGORI
ELIANA MEJIA
WAR VIETNAM KIDS
Vietnam was not the best time in American history and we have many reminders of this fact, such as this photograph of two children in the Vietnam War. It was taken in 1970, when the Vietcong army began recruiting children to cope with mounting casualties suffered in a war that seems long.
In this image we can see two children in uniform and armed with a rifle that is in a resting position, they took a break during the war against the American army. What makes this photo so shocking is the fact that children smoke cigarettes with total naturalness.
We all know that war ends everything in its path and one of these things is the childhood of many children. We have always understood that to smoke you must be a certain age but war ends all human ethics. These soldiers have already lost the most beautiful thing about childhood, innocence, they are now adults facing situations that just to imagine them break my heart.
War is not an exchange of tokens or territories; it is an exchange of the dead. It soldier smoking is always good, because I prefer to see them smoking rather man to see them dead.