[Reveal the truth of the country of war] "War is hell", American soldiers express anger and sadness on the helmet

[Global Times Reporter Qi Yin] In the Vietnam War, the helmet used by the U.S. military was the M1 steel helmet. The outer layer of this helmet is covered with a layer of helmet cloth. This layer of helmet cloth has later become a "canvas" that many American soldiers express their emotions. They write their feelings or complaints on it, and gradually form a unique " Helmet culture. Later, some military fans liked to collect such graffiti helmets.

"War is hell"

On June 18, 1965, photographer Horster Fas took a classic photo of a classic soldier in Vietnam, titled "A American Soldier with an unknown identity in the 173rd Airborne Brigade". The photo is a young young face. He wore a helmet and three eye -catching handwritten English words "war is hell" (war is hell) on the helmet. This photo has attracted a lot of attention after some newspapers and magazines were published. This unknown guy was quickly called "the most handsome American soldier" by some media. However, the media at the time did not further dig the identity of the soldier.

Until many years later, a lady named Frank Chaffen Morrison revealed to the media that the soldiers in this photo were her late husband -Larry Wayne Chafen. Larry was only 19 years old when shooting this photo, when he had just arrived in the Vietnam battlefield for a month. One year after serving in Vietnam, Larry returned to the United States to reunite with his family. The sentence on Larry helmet- "War is hell", from the famous general William Trumse Sherman during the American Civil War of the United States in 1879 at the graduation class of the Michigan Military Academy. Unfortunately, this sentence was fulfilled in Larry. Although it took only one year in Vietnam, the hell -like war made it difficult for Larry to integrate into the life of a normal person after returning to China, and because of the "orange agent" on the battlefield, Larry later suffered from diabetes and caused serious seriousness. The complications of complications left the world at the age of 39. The "orange agent" is a large amount of deciduous agent used on the Vietnamese battlefield. It is named after pretending to be pretended to be in an orange bottle. Material is fatal to people, and it is very serious to environmental destruction.

Special "calendar"

There is also a photo, a simple calendar on a helmet of the airborne soldiers, which recorded the years he had spent here every month. He also wrote how many days he needed to stay in Vietnam. In fact, many U.S. soldiers like to make such calendars on the helmet. They look forward to the days when they go home. Some soldiers will also marked the date of major incidents, such as the one that day to death ... Mowing

In these special "calendars", people have read generally disgusting and hometown emotions. There is also a soldier who records a special day on his helmet -July 15, 1969, an arrow next to him pointed to a hole in the helmet. It was a bullet hole. That date was the day when the death was almost taken away. He deliberately wore this life -saving helmet to take a picture (see Figure ③).

"Born for love, not war"

The helmet of some American soldiers not only reflects the mood of war, but also makes people see the black humor unique to Americans. A soldier wearing glasses, his helmet reads "Born for love, not war". There is also a helmet, sadness and misery with a hint of humor. This is a helmet of a war -fighting soldier. His comrades supported the helmet with a wooden stick, saying "Don't follow me, I get lost" (Don'T Follow Me, I'm Lost).

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