Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] News from Belgrade
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:16:36 -0700

Andreas Frijdal wrote:
> 
> Dear Tina,
> 
> Sorry for this late reaction, just no time to check the LUG.
> 
> I very much share and appreciate your concern about Vladan.
> 
> At the same time I am extremely disappointed by the total lack of reaction
> of the LUG, lets forget about Pascal's reaction, he must to close to the
> NATO buildings in  Brussels to think clearly.
> 
> Luggers(like all the other victims) remain also humans! Even when their
> presidents behave like irresponsible jerks.
> 
> I feel very sorry for the group.
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Andreas
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: 22 May 1999 18:14
> Subject: [Leica] News from Belgrade
> 
> Dear LUGnuts:
> 
> I thought you might have wondered or worried, as I have, about our fellow
> LUGnut from Yugoslavia.  I had heard nothing from Vladan Dugariæ until I
> got a long e-mail yesterday.  He was mobilized into the army a month ago
> and is stationed outside of Belgrade as a lookout for aircraft and cruise
> missles.  He says it is mostly boring and there is not much to eat and no
> clean water.  He hasn't gotten paid yet.  He gets to go home some weekends
> and sent the e-mail from there.  He says he has over a month of LUG mail
> that he hasn't had time to read.  He hopes that the bombing will cease on
> May 24th, the 60th day of bombing.  He also hopes that his unit will not be
> sent into combat.  He has taken documentary photos of the people stationed
> with him and his equipment and hopes to share them with us someday.  He
> laments that one of the landmarks of Begrade, the Tower of Avala, no longer
> exists because it was bombed.   He asks me to wish him luck.  I ask you to
> pray for him, if you are so inclined, or to wish him luck, in any case.  So
> strange to get e-mail from someone in the middle of a war.
> 
> Leically,
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> http://www.tinamanley.com/

Poor guy! He's fighting for one of the most despicable regimes in the
history of mankind. I hope his camera doesn't jam. I hope he doesn't get
the blood of the thousands of peasants his army is lining up and killing
all over his lens. I think it is possible to be too much of a liberal.
Mark Rabiner