Walt: My husband lost his younger brother in Vietnam, so we've been to the wall, and your photo brings stately and dignified tribute to Patrick O. Ford, the Memorial itself, and all the other men. Lovely, lovely work. Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Hamler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:02 PM Subject: PESO: Patrick O. Ford > Ran across this the other day. > > I shot it back in the early to mid 80's. Patrick O. Ford was a Navy > Gunners Mate who was killed in action in Vietnam. His heroic actions > won him the Navy Cross. > > In the early 80's the Navy was building FFG's, a fast destroyer type > with a bunch of weapon capabilities. One of the first built was FFG-53 > Patrick O Ford. > > For the commissioning ceremony the ship needed a pic of the Vietnam > Memorial. The criteria was a single pic that depicted the memorial, > Washington DC, and his name. > I scanned the neg and made a print. It actually looks better than the > origonal "C" prints I made back then. > > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/PatrickOFordweb.jpg > > > Walt > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
