It seems that when you think of a veteran, the sensory image that pops into your head is someone older and who has been around for a good while. You swine have it all wrong! Nowadays a veteran can well easily be an 18-year old right out of high school with his/her diploma and their significant other right there at the graduation snapping photos for MySpace and Facebook. More times than not, the student at the ceremony is where they would last see their significant other before being sent off to boot camp and squeezed through the ringer, chewed up, digested, and thrown out like a wet loose shit across the pavement.
While I was at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, a friend of mine, who was also majoring in photography was a recent combat Vet in Iraq. I still remember him telling me how one-sided the television news is. I could agree that it was obvious that news channels like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News strive to tell the public that our soldiers are just fine and fighting “the good fight for freedom.” Do me a favor and catch the next flight that’s going to the Middle East and report back to me on what you see. Photos would also be greatly appreciated. First, you might want to make sure you have a strong stomach to handle all the blood and guts that might be lying around caked in sand and being pecked at by vultures and swine.
©Garrett L. Knott, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment