Fear my soul, 1968

Fear my soul, 1968

Seen here is a skull of a Viet Cong fighter on top of a US tank at Da Nang Airbase. The skull holds a lot of different imagery. It displays the disrespect humans show to other humans in times of war. It also displays a dark or morbid sense of humour. However, one aspect of why the skull was placed there was to scare the North Vietnamese. In Vietnamese culture, death is an important event in a person's life. If a person is not buried or buried correctly, Vietnamese Buddhists believe that the dead person's soul will wander the world in pain and may come back to haunt those who did them wrong. The skull was most likely put there to scare away other Viet Cong, as they were famous for being superstitious, as this skull represented more of a bad omen. This is not the only way the US tried to intimidate the Viet Cong through religious or superstitious means. They also played dead souls wailing on loud speakers at night time to scare the Vietcong. They also placed the Ace of Spades card in the mouths of dead Viet Cong, as it was believed that the ace symbol was a bad omen in Vietnamese culture. So when other Viet Cong came to retrieve the body, they would find a symbol of death or bad luck, though the bad omen that was associated with the ace symbol was actually just a rumour and was not true at all.

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