[Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Pictures can say it all.....

[Herb Parsons]

Hmmm, must be the email client I'm using (Thunderbird). I'll see if I've 
got some weird setting I wasn't aware of.

Hank wrote:
> Herb,
>
> I see the photos on your reply back to me.  Can you check again?
>
> On 2/11/08, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
>   
>> The photo didn't come through. Probably a vast left-wing conspiracy.
>> Hope you can get it to work, that's one I'd like to see.
>>
>>
>> Hank wrote:
>>     
>>> Brad,
>>>
>>> Here is another one you will like. Let me know if the photos come through.
>>>
>>> Hank
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>     *=======================================*
>>>
>>> *The kid took shelter behind a hero.*
>>> The boy knows who will not kill him but will save him.  An amazing and
>>> touching set of photos! Look at the soldier standing upright and alert while
>>> everyone else runs!  Some news photos are so rich in symbolism they're
>>> almost like Renaissance paintings in how much they communicate.
>>>
>>> Such a photo appeared on the front page of the New York Times's national
>>> edition, a picture of the scene after a bombing in Baghdad yesterday.
>>>  Adding to the chaos of the bombing which killed at least 21 people and
>>> injured at least 66 was a shooter, maybe targeting people in the
>>> crowd.  Amid all the Iraqis who are running from the gunfire was a U.S.
>>> soldier, standing tall, perhaps looking in the direction of the gunshots,
>>> not apparently looking for cover.
>>>
>>> An Iraqi boy seeks shelter behind the soldier, a member of the *82nd
>>> Airborne Division.*  The first picture shows it all. The kid's face shows he
>>> is scared to death, and he's running to the safest spot he can find: this
>>> soldier who stands between him and danger.
>>>
>>>  It  would be difficult to stage a picture that provides a more potent
>>> metaphor for the role played by United States in this wretched world.
>>>
>>>   *That kid just** **did a virtual essay on** **"What America** **Means To
>>> Me".** *
>>>
>>>
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