Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Slava "Sal" Veder, whose photograph of a US Air Force officer reuniting with his family after years as a prisoner of war became one of the defining images of the Vietnam era, has died at the age of 99.
His family confirmed on Wednesday that Veder, a retired Associated Press photographer, passed away in his sleep at his home in El Dorado County, California, near Sacramento. He died on August 22, just eight days before he would have turned 100.
