Though the loss of American lives was palpable at home, this photograph by Larry Burrows — of a widow grieving over the plastic bag containing the remains of her husband found in a mass grave, one of thousands of civilians killed by the Vietcong during the 1968 Tet Offensive — was a reminder that heartache was not America’s alone. “There is a limit to the resiliency of spirit of any people, no matter how strong,” Burrows wrote in the LIFE story where this image originally appeared.
(see more — 50 Photos That Brought the War Home)
