For Don(Calgary)
sleazy
flight home, I came across this:
http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/IMG0013/723117117_2W6qM-M.jpg
When I started laughing, my wife just looked at me like I had finally
lost it totally. <g> After telling the story about your Venture art,
she didn't lose the look. *shrug*
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sleazy
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don (Calgary)
>Wandering around the San Antonio airport gift shops before boarding my
>flight home, I came across this:
>
>http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/IMG0013/723117117_2W6qM-M.jpg
>
>When I started laughing, my wife just looked at me like I had finally
>lost it totally. <g> After telling the story about your Venture art,
>she didn't lose the look. *shrug*
I guess you had to be there.
This is not the best picture of it but it will give her an idea of
what the colour version looks like.
http://www3.telus.net/public/dbinns/venture%20mural.JPG
By the way I could see the fatherly pride showing in those pictures
you posted of you and your boys.
They look like fine young men and you should be proud.
sleazy
Thanks. I had a chance to see myself 32 years ago thru him as we
wandered among the base's outdoor air museum and read some of the very
moving plaques dedicated to heroes of our service. We had time to
share some of our recent history.
The Medal of Honor monument made me a bit misty.
http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/DSCF2026/723120446_J38o4-XL.jpg
When
my oldest got to the memorial for Training Instructors, I backed off
and let him ruminate on his future.
http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/DSCF2027/723120553_PUcMo-L.jpg
don (Calgary)
>On 2009-11-24 20:53:16 -0500, "don (Calgary)" <hd....@telus.net> said:
>
>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:15:21 -0500, sleazy <no...@nil.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Wandering around the San Antonio airport gift shops before boarding my
>>> flight home, I came across this:
>>>
>>> http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/IMG0013/723117117_2W6qM-M.jpg
>>>
>>> When I started laughing, my wife just looked at me like I had finally
>>> lost it totally. <g> After telling the story about your Venture art,
>>> she didn't lose the look. *shrug*
>>
>> I guess you had to be there.
>>
>> This is not the best picture of it but it will give her an idea of
>> what the colour version looks like.
>> http://www3.telus.net/public/dbinns/venture%20mural.JPG
>>
>> By the way I could see the fatherly pride showing in those pictures
>> you posted of you and your boys.
>>
>> They look like fine young men and you should be proud.
>
>Thanks. I had a chance to see myself 32 years ago thru him as we
>wandered among the base's outdoor air museum and read some of the very
>moving plaques dedicated to heroes of our service.
Heh, heh, heh, seeing ourselves in our kids is one of the perks. Let's
just hope they only emulate our better side.
>We had time to
>share some of our recent history.
>
>The Medal of Honor monument made me a bit misty.
>
>http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/DSCF2026/723120446_J38o4-XL.jpg
>
>When
>
>my oldest got to the memorial for Training Instructors, I backed off
>and let him ruminate on his future.
>
>http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/DSCF2027/723120553_PUcMo-L.jpg
Great pictures Tom. Thanks for sharing them.
S'mee
> Wandering around the San Antonio airport gift shops before boarding my
> flight home, I came across this:
>
>
> When I started laughing, my wife just looked at me like I had finally
> lost it totally. <g> After telling the story about your Venture art,
> she didn't lose the look. *shrug*
Duckboy (that's the name of the company) has some good ones...always
was fond of "Death Before Decaf" #425 and "Trolling for Cougars"
#427...I just >< missed getting a job with the Montana State Grizzly
Bear Artifical Insemination Team. I mean, gee willikers Sleazy, that
job must be fun! Out there in the fresh air chasing down bears in heat
and helping them...
--
Keith
The Older Gentleman
>
http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/DSCF2026/723120446_J38o
4-XL.jpg
There's a fabulous 'Life" pic somewhere of people examining the Vietnam
monument wall.
I have it in a book. All it is is shadows of pointing arms.
Can't find it on Google Images (probabaly copyright)
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Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
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The Older Gentleman
> http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/IMG0013/723117117_2W6qM-M.jpg
*Want*
The Older Gentleman
> sleazy <no...@nil.net> wrote:
>
> >
> http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/DSCF2026/723120446_J38o
> 4-XL.jpg
>
> There's a fabulous 'Life" pic somewhere of people examining the Vietnam
> monument wall.
>
> I have it in a book. All it is is shadows of pointing arms.
>
> Can't find it on Google Images (probabaly copyright)
<Bad form post>
Why are so many memorials a bit, well, mawkish? Simple ones seem to work
better.
There's a dreadful new one in London commemorating the animals that died
in war. That 'training instructors' memorial that sleazy snapped doesn't
work either, somehow, not for me.
Lutyens' Thiepval one is stunning, but then most of the impact (like the
Vietnam wall) is from the names. There's a splendid one for the
Newfoundlanders at Beaumont-Hamel nearby that works well, too. Anyone
interested can Google for it.
turby
Gentleman) wrote:
> The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > sleazy <n...@nil.net> wrote:
>
> >http://sleazyrider.smugmug.com/Travel/Graduation/DSCF2026/723120446_J38o
> > 4-XL.jpg
>
> > There's a fabulous 'Life" pic somewhere of people examining the Vietnam
> > monument wall.
>
> > I have it in a book. All it is is shadows of pointing arms.
>
> > Can't find it on Google Images (probabaly copyright)
>
> <Bad form post>
>
> Why are so many memorials a bit, well, mawkish? Simple ones seem to work
> better.
There was a lot of opposition to the Viet Nam Wall before it was
built. Many people wanted something more grandiose, more traditional.
And I think there may have been some bias against the artist who was a
21-year old undergraduate Chinese-American woman. The consensus since
then is that it is a great memorial. And Maya Lin's body of work since
is absolutely amazing. She has turned into a great artist.
TOG@Toil
> On Nov 24, 11:58 pm, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
>
> > better.
>
> There was a lot of opposition to the Viet Nam Wall before it was
> built. Many people wanted something more grandiose, more traditional.
> And I think there may have been some bias against the artist who was a
> 21-year old undergraduate Chinese-American woman. The consensus since
> then is that it is a great memorial. And Maya Lin's body of work since
> is absolutely amazing. She has turned into a great artist.
You know, I'd never heard of her? Just Googled and had a good long
look. Wonderful. Can't find the Life photograph anywhere on the web.
Just been looking at it again in the big Life 50th anniversary book
I've got: very powerful image.
I do find the Transatlantic taste for military parades etc a bit...
um, a bit... well, slightly off-putting. Terribly reminiscent of
Britain of a century ago. And then, as the historian James (Jan)
Morris perceptively pointed out some years ago, WW1 came along, and
the Somme, and "the British lost their taste for gunsmoke".
Maggie Thatcher got it wrong when she organised a victory parade in
London after the Falklands War. It was seen as a bit embarrassing.
I think there are exceptions. Armistice Day, for sure, when the old
codgers (and some of the younger ones) sport their tin. But I'm with
Morris: the Somme was such a shattering event that it echoes over
nearly a century. I don't think the US or Canada ever suffered
anything like that single blow. The French did, with Verdun, and I
suppose the Germans, too, with Stalingrad. And the Japanese, of
course, at Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Britain, France, Germany and Japan may have all become less
militaristic as a result - although, should the need arise, I reckon
the Japanese and Germans would still find out which end of a rifle is
the naughty end, and the British did in 1982. Not sure about the
French...
The War Graves Commission does a wonderful job, and every year more
and more people visit the cemeteries and memorials in France. When
they put all the WW1 military records online a few years ago, it
crashed instantly under the weight of hits.
And I also remember that the idea was floated to cut the funding to
the WGC a few years ago - this often happens when some discussion is
'leaked', as a means of gauging public opinion, because the department
responsible can then deny everything and say it was merely one remark
taken out of context. Anyway, the outcry was enormous. Damn right, too.