discussion A picture which means something special

[Guest]

I think it is Keith, for me it captured the immenseness of space and our place in it but at the same time how we are able to find ways to exist in it, anyway now I am going to go and write some romantic poetry!! as I am suddenly feeling all profound and deep, on second thoughts I might just go and lie down.

Great movie. Apollo 13 showed us not only what the human race can achieve but also what we can overcome. How is the poetry coming along?

 

[Guest]

Mine


And it's really my fave one, as you can see is not from a computer....she is binding


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[Guest]

This sits on the wall behind my bed. I look every morning and every night at this beauty.


Gerald Coulson's "Hunter's Moon".


Shown here much lighter to show the detail. The actual real picture is in just pale light of the moon very eerie. A Hurricane which, as there were no night fighters at that time, is on patrol at night in the moonlight. To me it just portrays the loneliness of the pilot with his aircraft in the moonlight. All alone looking down on England. I can imagine myself up there with the Rolls Merlin burner purring away.


In the cockpit with an array of instruments flicking away. Hopefully after a while heat peculates through to warm the toes. Got to keep awake with the engine whirring tending to manipulate and dull the mind. Was that a stirring in the sky perhaps an enemy. Have to keep the mind occupied on where the aircraft is in the sky. Breakfast in an hour or so. My egg and bacon a luxury. All is silent tonight no raids. My mates all sound asleep in their beds and England sleeps peacefully for a night beneath me.


The engine purrs on as the Hurricane flies over Britain's as the night watchman. No mist tonight just that that cumulus in a layer beneath me the cloud lit by the Hunter's Moon.


Laurie


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[grumpa]

This photograph is one that I have never been able to get out of my mind, it is so awful. A young Vietnamese girl is running away from the terror of an American napalm bomb, she had been hit with napalm and her clothes had been burned off. To me it shows the terrible cruelty of war, not mention the pointlessness of most of them. Look what happened to Vietnam as soon as the yanks pulled out. What a needless bloody waste of life. This photo should never be forgotten. Wait and see what happens to Afghanistan as soon as we pull out.
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Look what already HAPPENED in Iraq since WE pulled out, bloody anarchy that's what!

 

[Guest]

Look what already HAPPENED in Iraq since WE pulled out, bloody anarchy that's what!

Exactly. What a waste of British and American lives, nothing at all achieved, just death and destruction.

 

[Guest]

Laurie, that is a beautiful picture, really stirs the emotions and I love your narrative, fits it perfectly.

 

[Guest]

Look what already HAPPENED in Iraq since WE pulled out, bloody anarchy that's what!

Unfortunately the fault of the USA and Britain. When will we realise that you cannot make a country democratic over night. Libiya Egypt and Iraq just to name a few.


It took Britain hundreds of years and a lot of blood shed to become a democracy. Similarly the USA. It is like life. A child is born and has to be nurtured into an adult.


Laurie

 

[grumpa]

Unfortunately the fault of the USA and Britain. When will we realise that you cannot make a country democratic over night. Libiya Egypt and Iraq just to name a few.
It took Britain hundreds of years and a lot of blood shed to become a democracy. Similarly the USA. It is like life. A child is born and has to be nurtured into an adult.


Laurie

Problem with middle eastern countries and peoples is that they've never had democracy and don't know HOW to have one. They rule from the barrel of a gun, that's all they understand. Obama has singlehandedly destroyed any meager progress we have had in the region and will soon drag us kicking and screaming into WW3. One man will do this because our system of govt. checks and balances has been totally bypassed and an impudent congress is too afraid of the lib media too stand up to him on anything not even when the fate of the entire world is at stake!

 

[Guest]

Back to the pictures I think we are straying into political territory. Ian has his finger on the button.


Laurie