This photo was taken by Larry Burrows, and it shows a solider supporting and cradling a hurt Vietnamese civilian, who looks to be a young child. The child is crying and has its head and eyes covered with a bandage, and the solider is carrying them in his arms.
Chapter title and photo analysis:
This photo relates to the chapter title perfectly because, when someone called out “Medic” because they had blood spurting out of a part of their body, it meant that they were in a ‘World of Hurt’. So the picture of the injured civilian in the soldier’s arms relates to the title because the child would be in a world of hurt or pain.
I think this photo occurred in the middle of the war, when the American soldiers started to go into the villages and fight amongst the people.
This image makes me feel horrible, knowing that these poor innocent people (including children) had to live and try and survive amongst all this blood and terror. Even tiny little children like the one in this photo were killed and badly injured everyday as a result of this war.
By Kim
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