[Leica] warpaint

[leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)]

If you're ever down south again, you must go to the National WWII 
Museum(used to be the DDay Museum) here in New Orleans. WWII and 
other veterans volunteer and work for the Museum. They are more than happy 
to share their experiences. Within the next couple of 
years the Museum will be the largest WWII exhibit in the world and they are 
expanding 3 more blocks.

And hey, I have yearly passes so you won't even have to pay to get in :)

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:47 AM
Subject: [Leica] warpaint


>
>
> It was my great honor last night to meet George Kolodzey who fought
> during WWII in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. After experiencing
> war, he dedicated the rest of his life to stopping it so that other
> people wouldn't have to go through what he did."I've been shot at,
> bombed at, torpedoed at, Kamakazied at," he told me, "I've been to war
> and I hate war." He is a spry and wonderful man, and a talented painter.
>
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/warpaint/temp/george1.jpg
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/warpaint/temp/george2.jpg
>
> George Joseph Kolodzey, Chief Radioman, USS Wilkes (DD-441) (Destroyer)
> 11 February 1941 - 13 February 1946
>
> " ... I was the radioman, so I called the Captain over -- you never talk
> to the Captain -- and said _You better have a look at this, sir._ The
> message said _Air raid Pearl Harbor. This is not drill_. He grabbed the
> message and ran out of the room and said _This is war!_
>
> "There was a guy on the boat who had this same tattoo, and I always
> liked it, three horses. I said _If I'm ever crazy enough to get a
> tattoo, that's the one I'd get._ And about a year later, I'd been out on
> liberty, and I woke up with this bloody paper towel taped to my arm and
> I thought _I don't remember getting in a fight, or getting stabbed_ and
> one of the other guys started peeling back the paper towel and he said
> _There's a tattoo under here!_ So I had a tattoo. But I always liked
> it."
>
> www.kylecassidy.com/warpaint
>
>
>
> Are you involved with veterans organizations? Reunions? Drop me a line.
>
>
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