[Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Pictures can say it all.....

[Herb Parsons]

The photo didn't come through. Probably a vast left-wing conspiracy. 
Hope you can get it to work, that's one I'd like to see.


Hank wrote:
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> Here is another one you will like. Let me know if the photos come through.
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> *The kid took shelter behind a hero.*
> The boy knows who will not kill him but will save him.  An amazing and
> touching set of photos! Look at the soldier standing upright and alert while
> everyone else runs!  Some news photos are so rich in symbolism they're
> almost like Renaissance paintings in how much they communicate.
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> Such a photo appeared on the front page of the New York Times's national
> edition, a picture of the scene after a bombing in Baghdad yesterday.
>  Adding to the chaos of the bombing which killed at least 21 people and
> injured at least 66 was a shooter, maybe targeting people in the
> crowd.  Amid all the Iraqis who are running from the gunfire was a U.S.
> soldier, standing tall, perhaps looking in the direction of the gunshots,
> not apparently looking for cover.
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> An Iraqi boy seeks shelter behind the soldier, a member of the *82nd
> Airborne Division.*  The first picture shows it all. The kid's face shows he
> is scared to death, and he's running to the safest spot he can find: this
> soldier who stands between him and danger.
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>  It  would be difficult to stage a picture that provides a more potent
> metaphor for the role played by United States in this wretched world.
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>   *That kid just** **did a virtual essay on** **"What America** **Means To
> Me".** *
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