Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/12

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Subject: [Leica] vets tattoos
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri Oct 12 10:39:54 2007
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC8030839456F@exchange8.asc.local>

On Oct 11, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> I'd like to think so. In the next couple weeks I'm going to try and  
> have a sit-down with my editor and decide if this is how I want to  
> spend the next year of my life and if this is something they they  
> think they can sell. I want to have enough photos and stories to  
> make a compelling portfolio when I do it.
>
> It's certainly alive in my head right now -- I realized when doing  
> Armed America that I really love being around people and hearing  
> their stories. So for me, something that gets me around people and  
> hearing stories is a win. And these people have interesting stories  
> and not only that, but they're people who have, for whatever  
> reasons, sacrificed for their country. And I think that if you're  
> going to ask someone to give up what countries ask their fighting  
> forces to give up -- their freedom, their youth, their lives ...  
> all of those things, then people have an obligation to listen to  
> them talk about that experience.
>
> I've only been doing this for ten months, but I'll never look at an  
> old man on the bus the same way again.

noble and appropriate Kyle...

I totally agree with your feelings,

tatoos or not...

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2007/jim_002.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2007/JimUSMClife+.jpg.html

Steve


> Didier sed:
>
>> Another great tattoo shot. Will this also make a book, at the end?
>> Didier
>
>>> Tom Murtha began using his skin as canvass in 1954 when he got  
>>> back from
>>> Korea. Significant events from that time as a Navy Corpsman and  
>>> from his
>>> life in the early sixty's as a Marine in Vietnam are marked in  
>>> ink. His
>>> bronze star, his purple heart, the units he served with, and  
>>> those he
>>> lost. On his chest it says "Not all wounds are visible." The wars  
>>> have
>>> never left Tom.
>>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/tom-murtha-bw.jpg
>
>
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] vets tattoos)