Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 29, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Michiel Fokkema wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > I like this even more then the Armed America project. Because of > the stories of these men. It's about their bravery and also about > the madness of war. > Good luck, I hope you will continue it. me too... Steve > > Michiel Fokkema > > Kyle Cassidy wrote: >> some out takes from today's photographs for War Paint -- >> www.kylecassidy.com/warpaint -- "I could hear the shrapnel >> bouncing along the steel deck and I prayed; _Oh God, don't let my >> legs get cut off_.... Around the ship were hundreds of bodies, >> floating in the water, up against the hull." Raymond Dierkes, Ship >> Fitter 2nd Class, Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944 >> "In the Navy," he said, "I was with wonderful people who taught me >> so much. I learned then, be nice to people, be happy, and things >> will work out. It's all you can do." >> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/raymond1.jpg >> "We were hit by Kamakazi planes three times. We shot seven down, >> but we were hit three times, it never ended, they were constantly >> attacking. When they were strafing the deck I could see the >> bullets coming towards me, the ship was on fire, and my signal >> flags caught fire. I tried to put them out. You don't know how to >> react, because you've never experienced anything like that." -- >> Robert Dorn, LCS57, April 12, 1944 >> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/don1.jpg >> It was my great honor today to meet and talk to some amazingly >> brave and remarkable men who left their homes as children to fight >> in a war for something they believed in, saw things that no one >> should ever have to see, came home forever changed, but kept on >> going, and kept on believing. (Some of them also told me _the >> most_ scandalous stories about tattoo parlors in Honolulu and >> Tijuana.) >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information