Vietnam, The Battle Comes Home

Gordon Baer

Freelance

A distraught mother looks for a photograph to adorn her son's casket. She believes he experienced another of his frequent flashbacks, imagining he was walking into a Vietnam jungle. In reality, it was a lake and he drowned. More Vietnam veterans have committed suicide than died in action during the war.

Gordon Baer, "Vietnam, The Battle Comes Home," in POYi Archive, Item #11399, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/11399 (accessed November 21, 2024).