Some old Photos for your enjoyment
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smokeywolf
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Cowboy Dad on the right in the jean jacket. Obviously a hunting trip. Possibly on or somewhere near Mt. Pinos in SoCal. Thinking this was taken somewhere between 1950 and '53.
richhodg66
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A Marine with .45 drawn on Iwo Jima, I really don't want to think of what was probably happening at that precise moment.
richhodg66
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And in the opposite vein, can't get enough Norman Rockwell.
Dusty Bannister
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There is a shocking difference between photojournalism and the illustrations of artists like Norman Rockwell.
The photograph clearly shows the contrast of the light and dark, the grim reality is almost physically felt.
The illustration by Rockwell, still shows the contrast of the fighting soldier, the care for the innocent child and is felt more in the heart than the touch. Without a doubt, I am a Rockwell "junkie".
The photograph clearly shows the contrast of the light and dark, the grim reality is almost physically felt.
The illustration by Rockwell, still shows the contrast of the fighting soldier, the care for the innocent child and is felt more in the heart than the touch. Without a doubt, I am a Rockwell "junkie".
richhodg66
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Italy.
richhodg66
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Okinawa.
richhodg66
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Pictures like that choke me up and also tend to piss me off. This whole "Hate the USA" crap that comes from the UN and a lot of the rest of the world, that we're the aggressors around the world. We are the good guys on this orb, there is no question about it.
Sorry for the rant.
Sorry for the rant.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
When my father was in Italy, he befriended a destitute family that included a very young boy. He gave them what food he could save and scrounge. For many years, after he returned to the states and started his own family, my father sent the family money. The young boy would write letters to my father in Italian and my father would have them translated. As time went by, the young boy became a young man and his letters were written in English. Eventually, the young man became a lawyer. Unfortunately, the letters stopped.
Dusty Bannister
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Perhaps the letters were written at the encouragement of the parents. Then when they were gone, the memory of the reason the parents felt it important, faded away. But at least your father clearly knew that his thoughtfulness was appreciated.
smokeywolf
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Name one country that has given more or anywhere near as much financial, nutritional, medical, logistical support to other countries as has the United States.
One country? That's funny, not all countries combined have done as much as the U.S.
Missionary
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You do not have to go to war to find children that are so hungry the lifting of a spoon to eat is real effort.
smokeywolf
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While I know this is not always the case when a mother or father can't put food on the table. Loss of a job, crop failures, loss of one parent, putting all the load on the surviving parent or a surviving relative. But, I'll never understand how people can be so cold, irresponsible and unreasonable as to knowingly produce children they can't possibly afford to feed, clothe and provide medical care for.
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Missionary
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I totally agree.
But sadly the "dominant acceptable religion" in South America teaches the poor to reproduce as many as possible. Mountain people take it to heart and go well beyond staying indoors and within matrimony. Girls become fair game to males of whatever age or family.
So on a daily basis adults visit this big city. Whichever excess child is in line to "drop off" at a large crowded market gets abandoned.
Sadly many children disappear into the most vile conditions imaginable.
Never think it is not going on in a big city near you.
But sadly the "dominant acceptable religion" in South America teaches the poor to reproduce as many as possible. Mountain people take it to heart and go well beyond staying indoors and within matrimony. Girls become fair game to males of whatever age or family.
So on a daily basis adults visit this big city. Whichever excess child is in line to "drop off" at a large crowded market gets abandoned.
Sadly many children disappear into the most vile conditions imaginable.
Never think it is not going on in a big city near you.
richhodg66
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Yes.
