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Civilians Were Shot: The Vietnam War was brought closer to civilians than any other conflict by courageous photographers and television cameramen. The horrors of war—the wounded, the dying, and the dead—had never been more graphically and more compassionately pictured, particularly in the color photographs taken by Larry Burrows, who spent nine years in the combat area, and lost his life when the airplane in which he was traveling was shot down over Laos in 1971.
In the shot put a heavy metal sphere is propelled from a circle seven feet in diameter; four feet of its circumference—in the forepart of the circle—contains a toeboard four inches high. In this event the shot is not allowed to pass behind or below the shoulder, so that technically it is "put" rather than "thrown." A 16-pound shot is used in major masculine competition, such as in the Olympic Games, national championships, and intercollegiate competition; the 12-pound shot is usually used by males in secondary schools, and the 8-pound shot is used in feminine competition, including the Olympic Games. In the games the shot put is also one of the 10 decathlon events for men. A put of over 65 feet has been made with the 16-pound shot, and a woman has exceeded 56 feet with the 8-pound shot.
The Grand Duchy suffered with our boys. A great number of stubborn, freedom-loving civilians were shot or deported to Nazi concentration camps, while no less than 70,000 persons, a quarter of the population, were made homeless. When I saw such villages as Echternach in 1946, they were fantastic war wrecks but their recovery has been another of those modern miracles which Old Europe has proved so abundantly able to perform. In fact, Luxembourg was one of the very first countries to effect a strong recovery. As early as 1947 all food rationing had been abolished. Fortunately, the capital had been very little damaged and was almost its old self even a year or two after the war ended. |
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