Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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