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Remembering the Vietnam War this Veterans Day

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The images broadcast in America’s living rooms during the war were often captured by military combat photographers. The military increased their production of photographs and moving images and because of this, NARA’s motion picture holdings relating to the Vietnam war are quite expansive. Medal of Honor SP/6 Lawrence Joel.

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“WNYC Mobilizes For Harlem Emergency”

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And the imposed sacrifices of domestic wartime rationing to support America’s military –a military intent on keeping in step with Jim Crow segregation, was more salt in the wound. The prejudice suffered by African-Americans at the hands of a nearly all-white police force made the struggle against systemic bigotry worse.