Dateline featured THIS story last week. Vietnam War: American soldier picks up a photograph of a little girl from the pocket of the Vietnam soldier he shot and killed. Coming Home tells the story of that photograph. They have the entire transcript on their website. Here is a quote from the transcript.
"I seen this picture sticking out partially out. It looked like (closes eyes) the face of a little girl with some long hair or something. And I pulled it out and it was real tiny. And it was a picture of a soldier and a little girl. I can remember holding the photo and actually squatting and getting close to the soldier and actually looking in his face and looking at the photo, and looking at his face.
Here was the man he had just killed. But who was that little girl? His daughter?
They seemed so serious. So, sad, somehow. Like the picture was taken just before they said goodbye. Before her father went off to war."
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