Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm Belgian, Walt :-) Not French. We screwed Congo up. Philippe Op 6-dec-06, om 00:26 heeft Walt Johnson het volgende geschreven: > Philippe > > I think if you start looking into your heritage you might be > surprised. If I'm not mistaken the French screwed up Indochina > long before we got there. Something else, I feel absolutely no > guilt relating to what transpired generations back. Nor should you > because your government (before it became yours) did what had to be > horrible to the Viets. Hell, we should put the past behind us and > take care of the now. Too bad their are so many people (of all > racial persuasions) in this country who want to drag yesterday > around their necks like an anchor. > > Walt > > > Philippe Orlent wrote: > >> As much as I disagree with what happened then and now, my >> reaction was a pure esthetic one. >> Must be-and to my shame- because it's not part of my heritage, >> eventhough I was aware of it. >> Philippe >> >> >> >> Op 5-dec-06, om 22:42 heeft Don Dory het volgende geschreven: >> >>> Philippe, the sad thing is that a lot has not changed in the >>> Delta. Nobody >>> chops cotton anymore, but the poverty is still rampant. Well, >>> the shotgun >>> shacks are mostly ruins now so I guess some progress. >>> >>> Don >>> don.dory@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> On 12/5/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> <http://arts.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,1959813,00.html> >>>> >>>> How I love these colors. >>>> >>>> Philippe >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >