Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 7/27/98 10:00:08 PM, you wrote: << >I've read that Capa only stayed 90 minutes before fear took over and he went >back to the ships. Imagine the poor GI's who didn't have that choice! This is a direct imputation that Capa was a coward. He was not. He returned to his ship NOT from fear or horror but to complete his task, which was to send the film back to England. The accusation of cowardice is a canard, and a vile and base one, at that. >> Seing as how I wrote this first posting, please let me explain. I was not trying to say that Capa was a coward. I realize it sounds like I was. I was merely repeating something I read recently-I don't remember where, maybe a newspaper. I should check my sources more carefully and think more before repeating things other people say. I apologize. What I was trying to say was that I have the utmost respect for the soldiers who had to land on those beachs and found themselves in the middle of Hell. They had a choice to succumb to terror, or advance and do a job that under normal circumstances noone should have to do. I'm glad I've never been in a position to have to make that kind of choice. I don't know how they did it. My apologies for any misunderstandings, Richard