[Leica] The Wall, Ted Grants message, and names

[grduprey at rockwellcollins.com (grduprey@rockwellcollins.com)]

I may be a bit naive, but I would hope that they do make a difference.  I
would think they remind us of our mistakes along with honoring the dead.  I
would also hope they make us think twice about making the same mistakes all
over again.  Granted, there are those who ignore these reminders, but I
hope the majority make the most of them in making the world a better place.

Gene



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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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