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| As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War
MICHAEL ASCHENBRENNER |
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As Michael Aschenbrenner landed in Vietnam, the Marines called in an air strike. Jets dropped two 500-pound bombs, killing fifteen Americans. "It was a rude awakening for an eighteen year old kid," he later remarked. Aschenbrenner was reasigned, as one of the replacements for the casualties, to a base camp at Phu Bai, from which he went out to live in the jungle for the next six months. His job was to inform the bombers and helicopter gunships where an attack was needed.
"Ernest Hemingway said that it took ten years after the First World War was over before he could write about it. I understand this. It has taken me as much time to comprehend what happened to me in Vietnam and to start doing Vietnam related images." |
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