Happy Veterans Day! - Kodachrome 2010

Well done, Stone.

I'll second that. This is one of your best. The photo, the film used, and your sentiments.

I was once asked by a WWII combat veteran late in his life if anyone ever even noticed anymore. Eddie had sailed into Pearl Harbor on Dec 8th as a brand new marine on a troop ship and stood at the railing with everyone else in stunned silence as they passed the still-burning wreckage.

He said they weren't even allowed off the ship. It was re-provisioned and was gone again in only hours. Later he fought on Iwo Jima and two other island campaigns in the Pacific. He was a neighbor where I grew up, two houses away, and as a kid I had no idea what he had gone through because he never spoke about it.

Now an adult, I answered him by saying that I noticed every single time I went to vote in an election and the ballot I received was printed in American English and that no one was looking over my should as I checked off the boxes that I wanted. That made him smile.

What a guy...

I agree, this is one of your best. Well done.

Well done,