Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/29

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Subject: [Leica] photographing WWII Vets
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat Sep 29 16:16:32 2007
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On Sep 29, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Michiel Fokkema 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.


me too...


Steve






>
> 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.)
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] photographing WWII Vets)
Message from michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema) ([Leica] photographing WWII Vets)