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

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Subject: [Leica] photographing WWII Vets
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat Sep 29 20:13:41 2007
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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.)
> >
> >
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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)