Walter Hamler wrote: > 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 > >
Beautiful. It is hard to believe there was such a controversy over Maya Lin's design at the time. The memorial works on so many levels. D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- 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.
