Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You need to go to the Horse & Cow outside Bremerton, WA and catch some of the submarine service tatoos. I'm sure my son would introduce you. Adam On 9/29/07, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> 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.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >