P&Ns middle name is and

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Thirteen-year-old Naserlalah Ibrahim, who lost his left leg during fighting in Syria, uses a frame to support himself as he learns to walk on a prosthetic leg fitted at a prosthetics clinic on March 24, 2015, in Reyhanli, Turkey. Border towns such as Reyhanli have received a large number of refugees, many requiring medical help after receiving injuries from bombings. There is now a serious shortage of surgeons, wheelchairs, and artificial limbs in Syria after reports that approximately 567 doctors and medical workers have been killed during the war so far. Human rights groups have claimed that hospitals, clinics, and medical personnel have been deliberately targeted during the war. Carl Court/Getty Images

The High Altitude Cherenkov Experiment (HAWC) observatory on the slopes of Pico de Orizaba and Sierra Negra, near Puebla, Mexico, on March 20, 2015. Sitting at the foot of a volcano, this facility looks like a water treatment plant. In fact, it's one of the largest and most powerful observatories ever built on Earth. Unlike optical observatories that use telescopes to study planets and stars, the HAWC detects high-energy cosmic particles to unravel the mysteries of black holes and supernovas. The HAWC is able to track where gamma rays originated, no matter how many light-years away.
Henry Romero/Reuters

This aerial view shows polluted water flowing from the Barra channel to the Barra beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 23, 2015. Rio de Janeiro’s mayor acknowledged in a television interview Monday that the run-up to the 2016 games has proven a “wasted opportunity” to clean up the city’s blighted waterways.
Felipe Dana/AP

 

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one for the Canuckians

 

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one for the Canuckians

 

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50 years ago. What's changed other than the location?

Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, in March of 1965.
Horst Faas/AP

With the persuasion of a Viet Cong-made spear pressed against his throat, a captured Viet Cong guerrilla decided to talk to interrogators, telling them of a cache of Chinese grenades on March 28, 1965. He was captured with 13 other guerrillas and 17 suspects when two Vietnamese battalions overran a Viet Cong camp about 15 miles southwest of Da Nang air force base.
Eddie Adams/AP

Wounded and shocked civilian survivors of Dong Xoai crawl out of a fort bunker on June 6, 1965, where they survived murderous ground fighting and air bombardments of the previous two days.
Horst Faas/AP

The singing group the "Korean Kittens" appear on stage at Cu Chi, Vietnam, during the Bob Hope USO Christmas show, to entertain U.S. troops of the 25th Infantry Division.
Horst Faas/AP

more:

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/03/the-vietnam-war-part-i-early-years-and-escalation/389054/

 

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Part 2 of the 3 part photo essay on Vietnam:

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/03/the-vietnam-war-part-ii-losses-and-withdrawal/389192/

A bon voyage banner stretches overhead in Da Nang, South Vietnam, as soldiers march down a street following a farewell ceremony for some of the last U.S. troops in the country's northern military region, on March 26, 1973.
AP

The Fall of Saigon. Fleeing advancing North Vietnamese forces, mobs of South Vietnamese civilians scale the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, April 29, 1975, trying to reach evacuation helicopters as the last Americans departed from Vietnam. #
AP

 

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one for the Canuckians

 

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one more for the Canuckians

 

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Part 3 (Hands of a Nation) of the 3 part photo essay on the US and Vietnam:

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/the-vietnam-war-part-iii-hands-of-a-nation/389309/


The loneliness and desperation of a refugee in Vietnam in August 1968
Eddie Adams/AP

Hands in utter confusion belong to Vietnamese civilians attempting to assemble a carbine (rifle) in August 1968, as part of the government of South Vietnam's civilian mobilization program where civilians learn how to protect themselves from attacking communists.
Eddie Adams/AP

A woman in Cholon lays brick in mortar. This is her third effort in rebuilding her home in August 1968.
Eddie Adams/AP

 

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One for the Canuckians

 

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not sure why but this makes me sad?

 

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Another one for the Canuckians

 

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The western US dries up.

A tall bleached bathtub ring is visible on the banks of Lake Powell in Page, Arizona, on March 28, 2015. Lake Powell is currently at 45 percent of capacity and is at risk of seeing its surface elevation fall below 1,075 feet above sea level by September, which would be the lowest level on record. #
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

People walk on a beach that used to be the bottom of Lake Powell at Lone Rock Camp near Big Water, Utah, on March 29, 2015. #
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Water lines are visible in a nearly dry section of Lake McClure on March 24, 2015, in Coulterville, California. More than 3,000 residents in the Sierra Nevada foothill community of Lake Don Pedro who rely on water from Lake McClure could run out of water in the near future if the severe drought continues. Lake McClure is currently at 7 percent of its normal capacity and residents are under mandatory 50 percent water use restrictions. #
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

more:

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/the-american-west-dries-up/389432/

 

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