Released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., as he returns home from the Vietnam War, March 17, 1973. Sal Veder/AP
Sal Veder/AP
Photojournalist Sal Veder, best known for his Pulitzer-Prize winning photo “Burst of Joy,” depicting a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel reuniting with his family after spending five years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam, died at
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