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Effete Snob

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19. Bonnie and Clyde got killed there

Reply to treestar (Reply #18)

Wed Sep 13, 2023, 08:05 PM

Sep 2023

It is not a “memorial” or a celebration, but just a fact.

I guess people think it is a memorial because of the Christ-like pose of the stylized depiction of a parachuting pilot. But it’s not as if Christian iconography is a big thing in Vietnam.

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