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Edit: Turns out the caption I’d found attached to this image was probably imperialist bullshit, so I updated it.

From @CommunistFFWhen :

iirc, those symbols were used by US soldiers who wanted to signal their intention to surrender/lay down arm or sth and NV soldiers knew not to shoot them Source

Original title of post: A North Vietnamese Army officer laughs at the peace symbol necklace of a captured American soldier, 1973

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

iirc, those symbols were used by US soldiers who wanted to signal their intention to surrender/lay down arm or sth and NV soldiers knew not to shoot them

Edited: Source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

That's pretty cool. Critical support for draftees who immediately surrendered to the Vietnamese when they met them.