I am so glad I found this site as it has finally motivated me to digitize some of my work.
Some of the stuff I post may be judged as good and some not so good and I will actually agree with that but they have all meant something to me and I have tried to present everything in as pure a matter as possible.
This series ,as I get them digitized and cropped, was taken on September 12th, 2001.
Like many I was in an utter state of shock. As an American I was infuriated that a country as kind as ours had been treated so cruelly byt the very ones we had taken in and granted freedoms they could only dream of in their homeland.
As a human I was devastated by the inhumanity of humanity. As a history buff I had always wondered what it FELT like in the hearts and minds of Americans the day after Pearl Harbor or the Maine, now I knew and wished I had never wanted to know.
As a veteran and a Patriot I strangely felt a little guilty[that for reasons I didnt understand I had been spared nor at 43 with an artificial joint could I be a part of the group that would avenge the loss of my countrymen. I could feel the winds of war in the air stronger than at any time in my life.
As I write this I recall some of the emotions of hurt and anger wanting vengeance that I had tucked away for these last 4 years.
In any event I took the next day and sought solace and guidance from the ghosts of generations past who had faced similar challenges in their own times.
I hope my work on that day can convey some of the emotion to the viewer today.
This is a tribute to area veterans of the US Civil War in Downtown Dayton.
LWW
Some of the stuff I post may be judged as good and some not so good and I will actually agree with that but they have all meant something to me and I have tried to present everything in as pure a matter as possible.
This series ,as I get them digitized and cropped, was taken on September 12th, 2001.
Like many I was in an utter state of shock. As an American I was infuriated that a country as kind as ours had been treated so cruelly byt the very ones we had taken in and granted freedoms they could only dream of in their homeland.
As a human I was devastated by the inhumanity of humanity. As a history buff I had always wondered what it FELT like in the hearts and minds of Americans the day after Pearl Harbor or the Maine, now I knew and wished I had never wanted to know.
As a veteran and a Patriot I strangely felt a little guilty[that for reasons I didnt understand I had been spared nor at 43 with an artificial joint could I be a part of the group that would avenge the loss of my countrymen. I could feel the winds of war in the air stronger than at any time in my life.
As I write this I recall some of the emotions of hurt and anger wanting vengeance that I had tucked away for these last 4 years.
In any event I took the next day and sought solace and guidance from the ghosts of generations past who had faced similar challenges in their own times.
I hope my work on that day can convey some of the emotion to the viewer today.
This is a tribute to area veterans of the US Civil War in Downtown Dayton.
LWW