[6] Stirm was later promoted to full Colonel and retired from the Air Force in 1977. She had fallen in love with someone else while her husband was in prison.
Despite outward appearances, the reunion was an unhappy one for Stirm. In 1974, the Stirms divorced and Loretta remarried, but Lieutenant Colonel Stirm was still ordered by the courts to provide her with 43% of his military retirement pay once he retired from the Air Force. Many ask, “Why did she show up that day?” Because he was still her husband and the mother of his children. "[5][4], Veder then rushed to the makeshift photo developing station (for 35 mm film) in the ladies' room of the air base's flightline washrooms, while the photographers from United Press International were in the men's. She sees a father coming home, a man who will one day be a grandfather to her children. The war which could not be won was over.
What is your Burst of Joy moment, a time you felt overwhelming joy? He fought and lost against her in court. Three days before this picture was taken, Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, the soldier in the picture, received a “Dear John” letter from his wife, Loretta. Turning his camera to the charging family, Veder quickly shot a series of photos. “But there was more to the story than was captured on film. About the picture and its legacy, Lorrie Stirm Kitching once noted, “We have this very nice picture of a very happy moment, but every time I look at it, I remember the families that weren’t reunited, and the ones that aren’t being reunited today — many, many families — and I think, I’m one of the lucky ones”. Loathsome creature.
The hypocrisy of the photo does not matter. When has your joy been interrupted with sadness or pain? However, a time is coming and may even be here when our eyes move away from the pain to see joy.
[4] Smithsonian Magazine says that "In less than half an hour, Veder and his AP colleague Walt Zeboski had developed six remarkable images of that singular moment. It would only seem like the right thing to do. "[5], Donald Goldstein, a retired Air Force colonel and a co-author of a prominent Vietnam War photojournalism book, The Vietnam War: The Stories and The Photographs, says of Burst of Joy, "After years of fighting a war we couldn't win, a war that tore us apart, it was finally over, and the country could start healing. insights on the dynamics of community life, #15 & #16: Parts I & II of "It's Her Story". Stirm later learned that Loretta had been with other men throughout his captivity, receiving marriage proposals from three of them. Lorrie Stirm Kitching, the girl with open arms in the picture, does not see her parents’ failed marriage in the photo.
What are your hopes for this coming holiday season? Afterward, he ran into the ladies bathroom on the base and developed the pictures.
Please contact the site manager for inquiries. [7], After Burst of Joy was announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, all of the family members depicted in the picture received copies. Maybe he was an abusive jerk before leaving for Vietnam. Such is the case with Burst of Joy.
Stirm remained in the military before retiring as a colonel in 1977 and settling in Foster City, California. Art, especially realism of this venue, should move you to tears. All eyes were glued to the soldiers, except for Veder who noticed a girl jumping out of a van.
Burst of Joy is not an image of the Stirm family. Photographer, "Sal" Veder was standing in the photographers' pit at Travis Air Force Base in California as the POWs made their way off the plane. It looks more like Prisoner of Wife. The centerpiece of the photograph is Stirm’s 15-year-old daughter Lorrie, who is excitedly greeting her father with outstretched arms, as the rest of the family approaches directly behind her. Burst of Joy became and remains an iconic photo marking the end of the US involvement in Vietnam.
The photograph depicts United States Air Force Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm being reunited with his family, after spending more than five years in captivity as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
Three decades after the Stirm reunion, the scene, having appeared in countless books, anthologies and exhibitions, remains part of the nation’s collective consciousness, often serving as an uplifting postscript to Vietnam. Lorrie Stirm and her three siblings were thrilled to have their father back.
She mourned for a year, but thinking he was dead, she was trying to move forward with her life, while raising four children on her own.
Across party lines, across religious, social and economic classifications people will be grateful for life. Her mother remarried in 1974 and lives in Texas with her husband.
Three days before Stirm landed at Travis, a chaplain had handed him a Dear John letter from his wife. We don't know the whole story. This Thanksgiving, across the nation, people will gather around a table to eat.
May we all reap this harvest with shouts of joy. The first group of POWs leaving the prison camps in North Vietnam left Hanoi on a U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter strategic airlift aircraft nicknamed the Hanoi Taxi, which flew them to Clark Air Base in the Philippines for medical examinations.
The families who did not get a reunion like hers.
[5], Despite outward appearances, the reunion was an unhappy one for Stirm. It captures the heart of America in raw form.
I don't buy any abuse story from this woman....no woman should do what she did to her husband while he's a POW. Stirm was shot down over Hanoi on October 27, 1967, while leading a flight of F-105s on a bombing mission, and was not released until March 14, 1973. The war which tore a nation in two was coming to an end. Now 72 and retired, he lives in Foster City, California. It is depressing to read that three days before the picture was taken Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm received a letter from his wife that she wanted a divorce. She was in love with someone else and wanted a divorce.
She had to pay back only $1500 of his money used on trips with other men.
It's one thing if she has "AN affair," however, looking at the story, you read, "men," ergo, plural. He then had to live with his mom in San Francisco taking care of his older kids. 'You could feel the energy and the raw emotion in the air'. [3], Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Stirm, USAF, made a speech[4] "on behalf of himself and other POWs who had arrived from Vietnam as part of Operation Homecoming. She started to run toward a soldier. The picture also reminds Lorrie of the soldiers who did not come home.
Even though there were only 20 POWs of that first increment released aboard the plane, almost 400 family members turned up for the homecoming. Joy is the sweet awareness of the gift of life and how precious it is to share.
They were together for a year following return.
It makes her appreciate life. On March 17, the plane landed at Travis Air Force Base in California. For 24-hours, the nation will slow down and be thankful. "[5], U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War, "POW's Homecoming a Picture of Joy, but a Tapestry of Sadness", "Coming Home: To a war-weary nation, a U.S. POW's return from captivity in Vietnam in 1973 looked like the happiest of reunions", Pilots from Takhli and Korat Airbases shot down between 1965–1972, Sad Story Behind 'Burst of Joy' Vietnam POW Photo, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Burst_of_Joy&oldid=973869017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 August 2020, at 18:17. The centerpiece of the photograph is Stirm's 15-year-old daughter Lorrie, who is excitedly greeting her father with outstretched arms, as the rest of the family approaches directly behind her.
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