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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slsaico" data-source="post: 7444096" data-attributes="member: 113940"><img src="http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/5512/burrowsrl6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />South of the DMZ 1966Contrary to the constraints that were put upon the press in subsequent  conflicts, and even to the embedded program used in the recent Iraqi  war, correspondents and photographers in Vietnam could, as Walter  Cronkite wrote in LIFE, ?accompany troops to wherever they could hitch a  ride, and there was no censorship . . . That system?or lack of one?kept  the American public well informed of our soldiers? problems, their  setbacks and their heroism.? Reaching Out is a quintessential example of  the powerful imagery that came out of Vietnam. ?The color photographs  of tormented Vietnamese villagers and wounded American conscripts that  Larry Burrows took and LIFE published, starting in 1962, certainly  fortified the outcry against the American presence in Vietnam,? Susan  Sontag wrote in her essay ?Looking at War,? in the December 9, 2002, New  Yorker. ?Burrows was the first important photographer to do a whole war  in color?another gain in verisimilitude and shock.? Burrows was killed  when the helicopter he was riding in was shot down over Laos in 1971.</blockquote>

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