A Marine provides security while Vietnamese farmers gather the rice crop amid potential threats from Viet Cong snipers. This photograph, taken in 1965 during the Vietnam War, captures a moment of the complex civilian life in Vietnam during the conflict. Source: Department of Defense, Marine Corps, A185403.

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