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1977 Feature: Moment of Reflection:
By spring 1976, the Vietnam War was over. Yet its impact remained. Robin Hood had learned a trade in Vietnam. He went over as an Army information officer and came back as a photographer. Eddie Robinson served in Vietnam, too. But the war took something away from him: his legs.
The two veterans crossed paths on May 15 at an Armed Forces Day parade. Hood walked along the sidelines, taking pictures for the Chattanooga News-Free Press. Vietnamese children caught his eye. They had been relocated to Chattanooga as war refugees and were watching the parade, waving small American flags.
Then the photographer saw Robinson, in army fatigues, a rain poncho and a wheelchair. "The thought occurred to me that here was a man who made a supreme sacrifice for the freedom of those [Vietnamese] children." He released the shutter. |