VIETNAM: ONE WEEK’S TOLL, JUNE 1969

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Life.com June 1969

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LIFE Magazine—Time & Life Pictures

Michael C. Volheim,

In June 1969, LIFE magazine published a feature that today remains as moving and, in some quarters, as controversial as it was when it sparked debate and intensified a nation’s soul-searching more than 40 years ago. On the cover, a young man’s face — the very model of middle-America’s “boy next door” — along with 11 stark words: “The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Inside, across 10 funereal pages, LIFE published picture after picture and name after name of 242 young men killed halfway around the world — in the words of the official announcement of their deaths — “in connection with the conflict in Vietnam.”
Read more: http://life.time.com/history/faces-of-the-american-dead-in-vietnam-life-magazine-june-1969/#ixzz2j4SCQ4C2