My father had a set of pictures in his office, side by side. Same group of smiling 1st Cav guys, standing next to the same VietNamese trees, with the same smiles on their faces. The only difference is the picture on the right had a massive range of craggy mountains, many thousands of feet tall, hundreds of miles off in the distance, mountains not evident in the picture on the left.
Used to get double takes from anyone that saw them. They'd look from one to the other in confusion, until my father would tell them the "mountain range" was actually the result of a B52 strike, 80 miles away.
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