[Leica] IMG: My Mother the Veteran
Douglas Barry
imra at iol.ie
Thu Aug 21 16:31:55 PDT 2014
"Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote
> My mother was one of the veterans honored at her retirement home today.
> She was a pre-flight instructor as a WAVE in the U.S. Navy during World
> War II, and is still remarkable. This former special education teacher
> turned 94 in July and she is still learning, viewing Great Courses DVDs on
> Winston Churchill, History of Jazz, and other topics, and goes through
> crossword puzzle books like crazy.
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/20140821_MR_Mine_DSF0900.jpg.html>
>
> BTW, when I showed her this shot on the LCD, she didn't like it. (!)
She'll like when she's 100. Many older women dismiss photos of themselves at
the time only to appreciate them some years later. My mother is 90 and has
the same problem.
Douglas
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