blog 7

According to Adams, Loan did just what any other person would have done. After the tet offensive in which hundreds of Americans died, Loan caught one person. In the heat of the moment he did what any person would have done. He took out all of his frustrations out on the man, and unfortunately he had the available resources to take the mans life. At the time Adams had no problem taking the picture but he said later he regretted taking it because it ruined a mans life because all you see is a man executing a prisoner but you have no idea what happened before that which could have instigated it.
Those protesting the war would say that this war should be stopped because relatively innocent people are killed. Anyone who doesn't know the history of this picture would assume that the man about to be executed did nothing wrong and is simply a person living in the town.
The US would make the case that America is doing everything it can to defeat a hostile enemy and that they are making progress. They would also make the argument that it's not only US soldiers fighting in this war, but also there are vietnamese people helping us out.
Eddie Adams would say Loan is a hero. This man is siding with the United States and killing a man who has just killed however many United States soldiers.
Loan only thinks one thing when he sees this picture and that is revenge. Im sure he still got angry even after the picture was published whenever he sees the picture.
The wife probably thinks her husband is a martyr. Her husband was standing there beaten and defenseless and was brutally executed. She is probably extremely disgusted by the images. A publisher trying to decide whether to post this or not probably had a field day with this picture. He wouldn't think twice about posting it because first off it's not an american holding the gun. Also because still photos are only half truths this picture allows people to interpret it in many different ways and therefore would have an effect on the broadest range of people.