[Leica] IMG: Recalling Life Fifteen Years Ago

[Douglas Barry]

A similar sad analogy is probably everywhere, Jim.

One of my grandfathers was heavily involved in the Irish Civil War as 
both an IRA Battalion Intelligence Officer and gunman (he was in Michael 
Collins's Squad), and the other was working for the British Crown. 
Mutual hatred has mollified here and now both sides are in a coalition 
government with the Green Party. It's an uncomfortable alliance, as, 
even though they're both centre right in outlook, scoring points against 
each other was (and maybe still is) their prime focus. CoVid has been 
great for smoothing out differences as the prime job is survival of the 
species (genus Homo Hibernicus).

:-)

Douglas


On 24/06/2021 20:34, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Thanks, Douglas.  I appreciate the kind words. In my case, the Jim, 
> short for James, comes from a grandfather who was the descendant of a 
> line of Baptist ministers, the earliest of whom was executed by 
> Confederate guerrillas because of his preaching against slavery. That 
> was my Mother's side. My father's ancestors served in the Confederate 
> troops.
>
> I'm afraid some of that hatred is still present in parts of the U.S.A.
>
> On 6/24/21 2:20 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
>> Nice shot, Jim. There was a clue in the photo, so you didn't have to 
>> tell us which one was yourself :-)
>>
>> The Irish (Gaelic) for Jim is Seamus, and you are a LUG and Beyond 
>> Famous Seamus.
>>
>> Douglas
>>
>>
>> On 24/06/2021 18:18, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> A local fly-in in 2006 attracted a lot of people to the airport, 
>>> including a number of retirees who enjoyed an excuse to get 
>>> outside.  Four AEDC retirees were greeting each other when a younger 
>>> acquaintance asked to take our picture. He sent me an 8x10 which has 
>>> been on a shelf in my office for the past fifteen years. Now 91 and 
>>> limited in my activities, I find the photo sets me to thinking of 
>>> the past.
>>>
>>> Pictured are two Jims and two Cliffs.  I am easy to recognize by the 
>>> Leica IIIf and an SLR around my neck.  The Cliff next to me was a 
>>> very young B-24 belly turret gunner in WWII, and later joined me to 
>>> supervise operations of the world's largest supersonic wind tunnel. 
>>> The next Jim was an instrumentation supervisor, and the next Cliff 
>>> was a computer technician.  All of us worked long night shifts in 
>>> the past, because that was when the electrical power was cheapest, 
>>> and we used large quantities of it.
>>>
>>> Sorry, the feet are cut off, but that is the way the photo was shot.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210624-P6240092.JPG.html
>>>
>>> I don't recall seeing any of these guys since that day in 2006, but 
>>> the photo is a cross-section of the past, for me. And, in Tennessee, 
>>> we do have some colorful chacters.
>>>
>>
>>
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