This was once quite a day to celebrate when I was a youngster. I can remember running around town on my bicycle and seeing all the veterans from the Spanish American War up to WW ll lining up for the parade through town. It was exciting yet solemn.
This photo I took at an reenactment at Lebanon, ME this year. The old soldier was looking at the exhibit of photos and drawings of the battle of Iwo Jima while the screen was showing photos of the event. I knew the photo was there when I entered the building. I had only a moment to take the snap, then it was gone. But this says it all to me. The old man with the motion to show life is still moving within him and yet the history of his life has been frozen for all time in the still photographs around him. And then the whole episode is over and gone. I left at that point. No photo I took after that would be as good or say silently as much.
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