Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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