Media's view on 1975's event

Browsing the Newsweek and New York Times archive in the LRC, I came across this series of news stories which drew my attention immediately. They were the documentations, midnight updates, maps and stories, both refer to one sluicet: the final battles in Vietnam. This denomination on Newsweek, Apr 18, 1975 displays many characteristics of those news.
The article was one page and a half long, with one big image occupied half of the first page. Below it was the title of straight, flat Arial font give tongue to An chaff of History. There was no subtitle, like the opposite articles on this takings.
The image had a huge effect on me. In the image, three ARVN soldiers, bruised and battered, no one holding his rifle. They didnt even look like soldiers in this picture. The message was clear, that the ARVN, an ally, was losing the war. The looks on their faces reinforced that; they didnt look at the photographer, not even seemed to be looking at anything. They were not expecting any help. I looked down the images caption, as anyone normally would, and tack together End of two decades of national struggle.
The title of the news was right below that, which I soon found. It stated An Irony of History.



This was one of the very few titles of this kind I could find in the archive, as almost all others were close the evacuation or how far is the NVA from Saigon, but held something even more(prenominal) real. It was too hard a reality for America to keep that they were being defeated. I had to be so hard that I couldnt find the word defeat mentioned anywhere.
Irony seemed to be a perfect word for the fountain to use. It described the event as something odd, something alien to American history. I could see that the author was trying to damp the shock. He tried to keep his stones throw as flat as possible, while adding some lissome humor as he made the comparisons between how American was preparing for its Bicentennial of independence and how it was in Southern Vietnam.
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