Vintage, $100 second-place winner
CWO3 David K. Farmer, USA (Ret), dodged leeches in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, in 1969; was wounded once; and made it back home alive. But, he notes, he was still too young to vote or drink alcohol. Submitted by Farmer.
Vintage, $500 first-place winner
Military Officer’s judges found the presence of an East German guard, with binoculars aimed squarely into the photographer’s lens across the Berlin Wall circa 1965, disconcerting and evocative of the distrust of the era. Submitted by Lt. Col. Lambert R. Scanlan, USAF (Ret).