Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My Veterans Day shot together with some text below that I previously posted on the Olympus list with the second and third shots. The guy in the shot is George Hooton. He is 81 years old and can walk me to a standstill. During quiet moments in the English countryside he often says that the scenes laid out before us are part of what he was fighting for during WWII. His reminiscences, spoken in a very matter of fact way, chill me to the bone. Trying to pick up survivors in arctic waters knowing that those in the water only had minutes to live before the cold killed them. The impossibility of trying to pull survivors out of the water when they were often covered in oil from the ship that sank under them. The cries of "Please don't leave me!" ringing in his ears as his own ship (HMS Savage) had to address other priorities. The unbelievable number of bodies in the water at the Omaha beach landing where HMS Savage provided covering fire. His acknowledgement, obvious but unfashionable here in the UK, that we would have been lost without the Americans. Leica M6 : 75mm Summilux : Kodak Professional BW400CN http://www.geebeephoto.com/2006/06219.htm http://www.geebeephoto.com/2006/06060.htm http://www.geebeephoto.com/2006/06061.htm --Graham http://www.geebeephoto.com