NGUYEN NGOC Loan died on Tuesday. In many ways his life was unremarkable. He was a Vietnamese refugee, failed restaurateur, husband and father. But one instant, captured on film 30 years ago, catapulted him into the spotlight and made him a symbol of the brutality and moral bankruptcy of the Vietnam War.
At the height of the Tet offensive, Mr. Loan executed a Viet Cong prisoner by firing point-blan ...
