[Leica] Desensitization

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

I knew that term would draw fire.  Many residents of the Southeastern U.S.
use that term as from their perspective the Northern States violated the
long term agreement about slavery.  It is important when moving between
cultures to understand their perspective on how things happened and more
important the why.  Whether it fits the facts on the ground the personal
reality is the sum of the society, it's myths, dreams, and the origination
stories that culture tells itself.

As to the American Civil War as most know the conflict of the early to mid
1860's it was eighty years in the making more or less and proof that even
know horrendous human undertakings require just as horrendous a response to
change.  My opinion is that is why change is so hard, the price of change
is often as horrendous as the objected to activity.  Consider the Second
World War, we remember the Holocaust as 6 million Jews, Gypsies, and mental
defectives being slaughtered but it took the lives of some 20 million
Russians, 12 million Germans, half a million French citizens, half a
million Americans, almost 600,000 Poles.  I could go on but certainly a
very high price to resolve European issues starting in 1914.

As to the question of the pictures, if you browse the images of the Civil
War there are a few still available of the "hospitals" where the only known
treatment for 58 caliber bullets smashing bone and flesh was amputation;
hence the piles of arms and legs.  The United States suffered more deaths
and injuries during the Civil War than it did in any other conflict: new
estimates are at 750,000 casualties.


On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> I love the South and would miss it terribly. There are plenty of us who
> don't fly Confederate flags, support Obama, vote Democratic, and don't
> stereotype others.
>
> Tina
>
> On Sunday, December 9, 2012, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote:
> > Usually pronounced Wah uv Nawthen Agression, this is the term that
> residents of the US South (Sore Loosers) use to describe the American Civil
> War. These can be, but not always are the same people that have large
> Confederate flag decals on their pickup trucks. It is an inaccurate
> description. President Lincoln was brilliant and far seeing, and realized
> that if this succession was to become fact, there would be no end, and what
> is the USA would become a hodgepodge of tiny nations led by who knows what.
> There are many of us, however, who wouldn't miss the south a bit.
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: philippe.amard
> > Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 5:10 PM
> > To: Leica Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Desensitization
> >
> > could it be Vietnam?
> > ph
> >
> > Le 9 d?c. 12 ? 23:39, Douglas Barry a ?crit :
> >
> >>
> >> "Don Dory" <don.dory at gmail.com>  wrote
> >>>
> >>> nasty deaths from smallpox and ebola.  Or consider the images from  the
> War
> >>> of Northern Aggression where there were stacks of limbs outside the
> medical
> >>> tents.
> >>
> >> Don, as an Irishman living in Ireland and unfamiliar with many terms
>  used in the States, what was the War of Northern Aggression? Do you  mean
> the Korean War? I never saw those images.
> >>
> >> I presume you don't mean the American Civil War as I thought that
>  started with the Confederacy attacking Fort Sumter? Well it did  according
> to all those school history books (European) I read 50  years ago.
> >>
> >> Maybe school books are different in the USA....
> >>
> >> Douglas
> >> _________
> >> Douglas Barry
> >> Bray, Co. Wicklow
> >> Republic of Ireland
> >>
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