Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Defintely Ted, I think you have act as an inteligent, and principally a great person with your own personnality than follow most tendences that even today I see a morbo-journalism, Great for you! Cheers Lluis El 25/06/2009, a las 4:47, Ted Grant escribi?: > God dam it! 1968 and I ran away from it because I was scared > shitless! I've > never run away from an assignment in my life but this one and it's > haunted > to this day! > > > > My assignment was to photograph the Canadians who were volunteers > with the > American forces serving there. Far more than anyone has any idea of > our > people, young boys went simply because of the many stupid stories > they'd > heard fromWW2 & Korea from their fathers or uncles or whomever. > > > > Me? Heck the year before, 1967, I was photographing the Israelis > charging > across the desert in a lightening strike manner as though it were a > piece of > cake. So going to Viet Nam the next year didn't seem like any kind of > problem. It was! > > > > But now some 40 plus years later this has created a situation I'd > never have > thought possible when it was thrown in my face regarding my attitude > to life > situations of today! Yes I've finally admitted to running away, > right here > and now, never before admitted!! You have no idea how it is to > finally do > that after all these years living with the fact .. "I ran away when > thousands of young boys couldn't?" Maybe being a father of 4 and 40 > plus > years of age may have had something to do with the decision. > > > > I'm sorry to lay this out in front of you as it has nothing to do with > photography of today, but it has everything to do with photography > with > Leica's of 1968 and me running away! No I didn't have to shoot at > anyone to > survive, but the experience has been a burden all these years, > because I ran > away! :-( Sorry folks! > > ted > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Lluis Ripoll luisripoll at telefonica.net http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll Blog: http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ http://www.lrmusic.es