Apr 13, 2024 · After spending more than five years in a North Vietnamese camp, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is reunited with his family at Travis AFB, on March 13, 1973. Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer …

Mar 11, 2024 · American soldiers returning home from Vietnam often faced scorn as the war they had fought in became increasingly unpopular. Check out six facts about this iconic testament …

Aug 3, 2023 · In 1974, Slava ‘Sal’ Veder won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for his photograph of the Stirm family. Veder was one of many journalists present at Stirm’s return – Stirm was flown …

In 1973, the photo “Burst of Joy” captured a jubilant family rushing toward a returning POW, a moment so powerful it won a Pulitzer Prize. The image, full of euphoria, symbolized hope and...

Oct 12, 2015 · Associated Press photographer Sal Veder's iconic image of a family welcoming its POW dad home from Vietnam has personified the joy of freedom for more than 40 years. …

Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, taken on March 17, 1973, at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California, United …

May 7, 2013 · Slava “Sal” Veder who was working for the Associated Press caught this image. It went on to win the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for photography.

Feb 6, 2020 · The photo itself is iconic: A seemingly anonymous POW’s back is to the camera as his gleeful family runs pell-mell toward him. The image, dubbed, “Burst of Joy,” was printed …

May 25, 2023 · The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture that captured that very personal, yet most public of moments symbolizes the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, the bittersweet …

On March 17, 1973, near the end of the Vietnam War, Associated Press photojournalist Slava Veder photographed the reunion of a released prisoner of war with his family. The “Burst of …