Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michiel, I agree... Cheers Jayanand On 9/30/07, Michiel Fokkema <michiel.fokkema@wanadoo.nl> wrote: > > Hi Kyle, > > I like this even more then the Armed America project. Because of the > stories of these men. It's about their bravery and also about the > madness of war. > Good luck, I hope you will continue it. > > Michiel Fokkema > > Kyle Cassidy wrote: > > some out takes from today's photographs for War Paint -- > www.kylecassidy.com/warpaint -- > > > > "I could hear the shrapnel bouncing along the steel deck and I prayed; > _Oh God, don't let my legs get cut off_.... Around the ship were hundreds > of > bodies, floating in the water, up against the hull." Raymond Dierkes, Ship > Fitter 2nd Class, Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944 > > > > "In the Navy," he said, "I was with wonderful people who taught me so > much. I learned then, be nice to people, be happy, and things will work > out. > It's all you can do." > > > > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/raymond1.jpg > > > > "We were hit by Kamakazi planes three times. We shot seven down, but we > were hit three times, it never ended, they were constantly attacking. When > they were strafing the deck I could see the bullets coming towards me, the > ship was on fire, and my signal flags caught fire. I tried to put them out. > You don't know how to react, because you've never experienced anything like > that." -- Robert Dorn, LCS57, April 12, 1944 > > > > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/don1.jpg > > > > It was my great honor today to meet and talk to some amazingly brave and > remarkable men who left their homes as children to fight in a war for > something they believed in, saw things that no one should ever have to see, > came home forever changed, but kept on going, and kept on believing. > > > > (Some of them also told me _the most_ scandalous stories about tattoo > parlors in Honolulu and Tijuana.) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >