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Subject: [Leica] The Wall, Ted Grants message, and names
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Apr 16 10:40:31 2004

They certainly are important, if for no other reason than that they make
it harder to forget. 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Sander van Hulsenbeek
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:49 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Wall, Ted Grants message, and names


Ted wrote:

> News stories and tv footage were one thing, but 51,000 names plus? Man

> that's a whole new ball game of mixed emotions!

Yes, and it is. As an European I recognize that, and though I have not
visited The Wall, I can imagine it would have put tears in my eyes too.

As did a visit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, to
me, more than 25 years ago. Their website now mentions 2 million names,
and counting, as they say:

http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/remembrance/index_remembrance.html

The International Day of reflection on the Ruanda Genocide was only a
week ago! :  http://www.un.org/events/rwanda/

The question is: where is this world going. Not on one side of the
Atlantic, on both! And monuments; are they important?

Sander
Amsterdam
Holland


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Wall


> > 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<<<<
>
>
> Hi Sonny,
> Well done mon ami as it's one of the most emotionally moving monuments

> to visit in real and I imagine the moving one carries the same 
> feeling. How could it not? And you've captured it very well with it's 
> emotional impact
.
>
> I mean "war memorials" the world over are usually quite spectacular in
size
> and what they represent. However, "The Wall" not only is spectatular 
> in
size
> and design, it has the emotions of so many people emanating from it 
> that whether one is an American or not you feel it very deeply!
>
> The Russian "Great Patriotic War" monument from WW2, as Canada's Vimy
Ridge
> Memorial in France, they are spectacular in size and beauty, but 
> neither
has
> the same emotional effect as The Vietnam Memorial in Washington.
>
> I was on assignment a few years ago and down time occured, so the
first
> place I headed was  "The Wall."   Whew!  what an emotional experience,
not
> only the size, but it's the names, on and on and on! My God each and 
> everyone of them was a mother's son or daughter. And that's what 
> grabbed
me,
> the names all in alphebetical order each and everyone a human being.
>
> News stories and tv footage were one thing, but 51,000 names plus? Man

> that's a whole new ball game of mixed emotions!
>
> Your photograph, although only a small portion of it, carries the kind

> of emotional strength in it's simplicty of shadow, hand and names just

> as effective as being there. Once again, well done.
>
> ted..
>
>
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