[Leica] vets tattoos

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

I'd like to think so. In the next couple weeks I'm going to try and have a 
sit-down with my editor and decide if this is how I want to spend the next 
year of my life and if this is something they they think they can sell. I 
want to have enough photos and stories to make a compelling portfolio when I 
do it.

It's certainly alive in my head right now -- I realized when doing Armed 
America that I really love being around people and hearing their stories. So 
for me, something that gets me around people and hearing stories is a win. 
And these people have interesting stories and not only that, but they're 
people who have, for whatever reasons, sacrificed for their country. And I 
think that if you're going to ask someone to give up what countries ask 
their fighting forces to give up -- their freedom, their youth, their lives 
... all of those things, then people have an obligation to listen to them 
talk about that experience. 

I've only been doing this for ten months, but I'll never look at an old man 
on the bus the same way again.



kc


Didier sed:

>Another great tattoo shot. Will this also make a book, at the end?
>Didier

>>Tom Murtha began using his skin as canvass in 1954 when he got back from
>>Korea. Significant events from that time as a Navy Corpsman and from his
>>life in the early sixty's as a Marine in Vietnam are marked in ink. His
>>bronze star, his purple heart, the units he served with, and those he
>>lost. On his chest it says "Not all wounds are visible." The wars have
>>never left Tom.
>>http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/tom-murtha-bw.jpg