Confusion that one may have about these photos, are due to the fact that Ronald L. Haeberle had sold these photographs to Life magazine soon after he returned to the United States. Some questions about this situation are the following; did Haeberle sell them for a huge profit, by staging the photos? Or did he photograph actual events? With all this confusion and questions about these photos,.
Haeberle's evidence is more credible than Partsch's journal. A person more likely to believe visuals than written documents, because in today's world, people need to see the evidence with their own eyes. Photographs are the focus points to the viewer to actually see what happened. .
In Partsch's journal, he talks about the shootings that occurred that day. One.
reason of how this document could be "tampered" with is, because one could revise the.
journal entry to help out the government or someone else. He also could have been told.
to write this specific detail. In his journal he states, "We started to move slowly through.
the village shooting everything in sight children men and women and animals" (164). He.
did not state why or even the situation of how they killed them. This specific information.
is the key to letting everyone know what actually happened. This passage could have been a burst of relief because some information about the My Lai is that children and women were subjected to be strapped with bombs around their bodies, killing themselves and the U.S. troops. Another point of view that this passage could have stated was that indeed the troops did not care about any innocent Vietnamese life, whether it be a Vietnamese soldier or a six-year-old child. With everyone's view of our country, how could someone think that soldiers of our own country would kill a child or an innocent person for no reason?.
Haeberle and Partsch's documents can be compared to one another because.
Haeberle's photos are more credible than Partsch's journal entries.
In this paper, I will show that since the early 1900s and elite few placed in key positions in the United States have been able to focus the attention of the majority of the population in a direction that was acceptable for the government. ... However, these numbers are small in comparison with the 170,000 draft dodgers and 2,810,296 men who were inducted into the armed forces. ...
