Posted on 05/28/2012 5:01:36 AM PDT by Kartographer
This is a repost of a story from last year:
And so it is with my June column on the amateur photographer, the widow and the eagle on a gravestone.
A quick recap: Amateur photographer Frank Glick was on his way to work when he drove through Fort Snelling National Cemetery early one morning. He spotted a bald eagle through the mist, perched on a gravestone, and snapped shots with his aging but ever-present camera.
Nice shot, he thought.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
I thought I was left speechless by the photo - then I read your beautifully moving poem..............
Excellent poem, very fitting.
You need to watch FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS.
I’ve seen the photo before, but your poem completes it....well done FRiend...well done.
Oh, wow...
Very beautiful and fitting.
I disagree. It's strange how some of the tombstones have shadows and some don't. There is no shadow of the eagle, but there is of the tombstone. And that tombstone shadow is identical to the shadow of the tombstone two rows closer to the camera.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Thanks, well done.
I saw this last year and I’m glad you posted it again with the poem. Thanks again.
See Post #33
People that claim that Rosenthal's photo was staged can't explain why Genaust's film, which was shot simultaneously, wasn't staged or why Lowery's photo of the first flag raising wasn't staged. They can't explain why, if the photo was staged, Rosenthal almost missed taking it. Most of these "experts" have no idea why a second flag was even raised and what happened to the original.
For that matter, using the logic of the ignorant, the same claim could be made that every photo ever taken in combat was staged because a camera and photographer just happened to be present. Nonsense.
Very nice, K. Thank you so much.
w, s, ping....
Thanks for the beautiful poem. I hope you don’t mind that I sent it to my wonderful brother who is an active Colonel in the Army.
Anyone who doesn’t get tears in their eyes seeing that photo has a heart of stone.
Very beautiful.
Thanks for the picture and the poem.
The “first” flag up on Suribachi was indeed on the fly. A reenactment of sorts was staged to same scene, those participating reported.
Think we are both partially correct, but I'll be happy to reconsider from your proof.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq87-3l.htm .
Quote: Interviewer: I understand this is the second flag raising that occurred there.
John Bradley: That's right. The first flag was a smaller flag and it was put up by Platoon Sergeant [a Staff Noncommissioned Officer rank above that of sergeant] Ernest I. ["Boots"] Thomas of Tallahassee, Florida. He was the Platoon Sergeant in charge of the 40-man patrol [not factually correct - PlSgt Thomas was the senior enlisted man in the platoon and his duty was to assist the Platoon Commander, a commissioned officer]. He put up that flag about one half hour before this larger one was put up. It was so small that it couldn't be seen from down below so our Battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Chandler W. Johnson [USMC] sent a four-man patrol up with this larger flag which is the flag you see on the poster for the 7th war Loan Drive.
TM see my Post # 59, with link to interview with one of the “original” raisers.
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