Keith Decker Born Oak Park, Illinois, 1945 Served in Vietnam, Army, 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, east of Bien Hoa, medic, 1966
				Four untitled pairs of photographs from the Vietnam Retrospective series, 1966/1987-88, each pair 5 x 18 in.
		A fog of enchantment envelops us in times of war. It is a killing fog, in which the best and most noble stirrings of the human heart are perverted. I was twenty years old in 1966, when I recorded my first images of the fog called the Vietnam War. I was forty-three when I really began to develop them. The war I experienced was not glorious or honorable or manly or righteous. With the bullets and the bombs and the bloody carnage came blood-lust, hysteria, and insanity. Time passes; the fog lifts; war is not a team sport, press conferences are not pep rallies. Yet like moths circling an open flame we continue to be drawn to it, fascinated by it. We haven't learned anything.