Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rather than depressing I find Bill's story both inspirational and challenging. All our complaints and yet how many of us know what real suffering is really about. Or real courage, or real stamina. Sorry to run rampant with my feelings concerning Mr. Kirk but I say God bless him and Semper Fi. Walt B. D. Colen wrote: >Boy, you are depressing today. ;-) > > >On 5/12/06 1:31 PM, "Bill Clough" <bill_clough@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >>USA >>TEXAS >>CORPUS CHRISTI >>12 May 2006 >> >> >> >>>From the Associated Press: >>> >>> >> While a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, >>Terence Sumner Kirk built a pinhole camera to make a >>photographic record of his starving fellow POWs. >> He said he wanted to document the horrors he and his >>fellow Marines endured during four years in a Japanese >>prisoner of war camp. He used smuggled photo supplies to >>make that record--despite the threat of summary execution >>if his captors found out. He then wrapped the photos in oil >>cloth and buried them in a latrine. >> Kirk kept his secret for 38 years after signing a War >>Department document prohibiting prisoners held by the >>Japanese from telling their stories without government >>permission. But, in 1983, Kirk released his memoirs and >>prison photos in his book ?The Secret Camera.? >> Kirk died on Wednesday at his home in Burleson, Texas, >>south of Fort Worth. He was 89. >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 > > > >