Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >Remember CNN TV coverage during the Gulf War? Heck the first night of >raids, who wasn't mesmerized by the images of the return fire from >anti-aircraft weapons? It was so surrealistic and very "Hollywood >looking." How could anyone take it seriously? And really, how many >people went screaming and demonstrating in the streets of the world to >stop it? Some. Unfortunately the world basically went on as usual >because it was merely flitting moments on the tube in the living room. I was in a Mall in Atlanta, Duluth to be exact, Georgia taking pictures of people watching the attack on the TV in an electronics store...the joys of working news....was quite weird....seeing the bombs and tracer fire hard to believe we were at war. > > God help us if >there is an event so disastrous that the people of the world rebel >against all the horrors of war. Ted, read the book "On the Beach" that is about the only thing, IMHO, that will turn the world against war, of course by the time it goes that far it will be too late.... - -- Harrison McClary http://www.mcclary.net