The Don Englebreston Collection

Roped-Off Display Easel Area in the Darkened Ballroom, SOAR XXXVII, Las Vegas, 2013 (underexposed)

Roped-Off Display Easel Area in the Darkened Ballroom, SOAR XXXVII, Las Vegas, 2013 (underexposed)

SOAR XXXVII, Las Vegas, 2013. The exhibit area of the thirty-seventh Special Operations Association Reunion, photographed with the house lights down. A double row of easels carries mounted display boards, cordoned from the floor by rope stanchions, while a single visitor studies them. Display panels of this kind - unit histories, photographic montages, memorial boards - were a fixture of these reunions, where veterans of MACV-SOG and other Vietnam-era special operations units assembled and corrected their own visual record. The frame is significantly underexposed. Project: 219854