Head-bandaged U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie, wounded after a fierce firefight south of the DMZ in Vietnam, reaches out to a stricken, glassy-eyed fellow Marine in Larry Burrows' Hieronymus Bosch-like portrait of chaos, courage, and desolation. Years later, Purdie's wife told Paris Match magazine that Burrows' photograph, a print of which hung in their living room, helped Purdie feel connected to those Marines who never made it home from the war.
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