[Leica] warpaint

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

already signed the book contract??

ric


On Aug 31, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

>
>
> It was my great honor last night to meet George Kolodzey who fought
> during WWII in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. After experiencing
> war, he dedicated the rest of his life to stopping it so that other
> people wouldn't have to go through what he did."I've been shot at,
> bombed at, torpedoed at, Kamakazied at," he told me, "I've been to war
> and I hate war." He is a spry and wonderful man, and a talented  
> painter.
>
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/warpaint/temp/george1.jpg
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/warpaint/temp/george2.jpg
>
> George Joseph Kolodzey, Chief Radioman, USS Wilkes (DD-441)  
> (Destroyer)
> 11 February 1941 - 13 February 1946
>
> " ... I was the radioman, so I called the Captain over -- you never  
> talk
> to the Captain -- and said _You better have a look at this, sir._ The
> message said _Air raid Pearl Harbor. This is not drill_. He grabbed  
> the
> message and ran out of the room and said _This is war!_
>
> "There was a guy on the boat who had this same tattoo, and I always
> liked it, three horses. I said _If I'm ever crazy enough to get a
> tattoo, that's the one I'd get._ And about a year later, I'd been  
> out on
> liberty, and I woke up with this bloody paper towel taped to my arm  
> and
> I thought _I don't remember getting in a fight, or getting stabbed_  
> and
> one of the other guys started peeling back the paper towel and he said
> _There's a tattoo under here!_ So I had a tattoo. But I always liked
> it."
>
> www.kylecassidy.com/warpaint
>
>
>
> Are you involved with veterans organizations? Reunions? Drop me a  
> line.
>
>
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