On 13/11/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:

>Veterans Day always me brings powerful reminders of those friends who  
>served in the armed forces: my teenage years in the Vietnam War era  
>cannot be expunged from memory, the emotions are still there. I try  
>to do something related in honor. This year the Michael Kenna lecture  
>on "Impossible to Forget" was the evening of the 9th, and the evening  
>of the 10th I went to see "Jarhead", the adaptation of Marine Anthony  
>Swofford's memoir of the Gulf War. In both, I found again that other  
>space that I remember from waiting for the draft lottery results in  
>my 19th year ..
>
>Excellent photo, Cotty. May there be fewer veterans to honor in  
>future eras. We, born in the bloody world of the 20th Century, will  
>not lack for them however we might hope.

Thanks for your kind words Godders.




Cheers,
  Cotty


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