Wipers

xoxoxoBruce · 07-18-2007, 04:42 PM

Being shot and blown up, I'd expect. Having their skin burnt off, right through their clothing, by mustard gas is a little jolt to my reality.

It makes me understand why the Americans said, fuck those trenches, we'll fight it out in the open.

jester · 07-19-2007, 10:47 AM

i think the picture that really made an impression on me is the one where the two guys are "up" on the wire - we know that crap goes on, i guess when your not "up close & personal" you tend to grow numb from hearing about it - i'm sure those images are just a drop in a bucket of the shit that really happened - i can almost begin to understand why our soldiers have such difficulty resuming their life after something so disturbing.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-19-2007, 05:48 PM

True, they are a far cry from Mathew Brady's carefully placed, non-gory, bodies in the first war photographs.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-28-2007, 03:46 PM

It doesn't look like cf has had time to put the "wipers" tour up yet, unfortunately.

07-18-2007, 04:42 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Being shot and blown up, I'd expect. Having their skin burnt off, right through their clothing, by mustard gas is a little jolt to my reality. It makes me understand why the Americans said, fuck those trenches, we'll fight it out in the open. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-19-2007, 05:48 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	True, they are a far cry from Mathew Brady's carefully placed, non-gory, bodies in the first war photographs. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-28-2007, 03:46 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It doesn't look like cf has had time to put the "wipers" tour up yet, unfortunately. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-19-2007, 10:47 AM	#2
jester why so serious Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,712	i think the picture that really made an impression on me is the one where the two guys are "up" on the wire - we know that crap goes on, i guess when your not "up close & personal" you tend to grow numb from hearing about it - i'm sure those images are just a drop in a bucket of the shit that really happened - i can almost begin to understand why our soldiers have such difficulty resuming their life after something so disturbing.

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