Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph showing Robert L. Stirm (1933–2025), a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, meeting his family after five years as a POW in North Vietnam due to the Vietnam War. The photograph was taken by Slava "Sal" Veder, an Associated Press photographer, on March 17, 1973, at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California.
Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph showing Robert L. Stirm (1933–2025), a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, meeting his family after five years as a POW in North Vietnam due to the Vietnam War. The photograph was taken by Slava "Sal" Veder, an Associated Press photographer, on March 17, 1973, at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California.
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