Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Or to the joy of sipping at a carefully poored glass of '78 Auchentoshan Cask Strength :) > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:31:58 -0400 > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] The Wall > > And that ends our retrograde political message for the day. Now back to > the Volvo discussion already in progress. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > allan yates > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:35 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] The Wall > > > Clive, > Thank you for your thoughts on the wall. I have not yet had the > opportunity to see either the traveling wall or the original monument in > D.C., but I will see it some day. The men and women who died in Vietnam > died fighting for freedom - the freedom of not their families at home in > the U.S., but the freedom of the Vietnamese people. The depth of their > sacrifice and of their charachter is incomprehensible. > > It saddens me deeply to know that if the men who sent them would have > had the reslove and integrity of those they sent, the war could have > been over in 3 to 6 months. Tens of thousands of America's finest could > have been spared. > > Let us never forget their sacrifice and their patriotism. Likewise, let > us never forget or take for granted the sacrifices of the men and women > in uniform who serve today, fighting the war that was started by our > enemies on September 11, 2001 with cowardice and no mercy for their > innocent victims. > > "AT HOME, MEN AND WOMEN SLEEP IN PEACE UNDER THE BLANKET OF FREEDOM > BECAUSE GOOD MEN AND WOMEN STAND READY TO DO VIOLENCE ON THEIR BEHALF." > (From a placard at U.S. Marine Corps training depot, Parris Island, > S.C.) > > > > Clive Moss <chmphoto@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Sonny Carter said the following on 4/15/2004 12:28 PM: > >> The traveling version of the Viet Nam Memorial is in Natchitoches, >> just >> two blocks from my house. This may not be the last you see of it from >> me. >> >> http://www.sonc.com/wall1.htm > The first time I saw the original wall I was totally overwhelmed. The > power of a list of names in incredible. > > In Paris (and many other cities, but Paris stands out in my mind) there > are grand, large monuments to the dead of many conflicts. I find them > impressive. I do not find them moving in the same way that the wall is > moving. The monuments glorify war. The wall mourns the victims. > > -- > Clive > http://clive.moss.net _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >