Warriors
Justin, you always have such good thoughts. I would just like to expound a little bit more upon this thought of valiantly fighting for something..
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat."
Robert Capa, a war time photographer during the Spanish Civil War, WWII, and the Vietnam war- was on the beaches of Normady as the allied troops landed. He was able to shoot 108 pictures while all the horrors of hell seemed to seep up from the sand and water on those French beach-heads. Unfortunately, due to a mistake in the developing room, most of those pictures were lost, or damaged. Despite the images being damaged, it is only fitting that they are out of focus and imperfect.
His tagline for photographers is sickly ironic "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." On May 25, 1954, Robert Capa stepped on a landmine, and was killed- still clutching his camera. I desire to be like these men, fighting valiantly for something worthy and good.
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat."
Robert Capa, a war time photographer during the Spanish Civil War, WWII, and the Vietnam war- was on the beaches of Normady as the allied troops landed. He was able to shoot 108 pictures while all the horrors of hell seemed to seep up from the sand and water on those French beach-heads. Unfortunately, due to a mistake in the developing room, most of those pictures were lost, or damaged. Despite the images being damaged, it is only fitting that they are out of focus and imperfect.
His tagline for photographers is sickly ironic "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." On May 25, 1954, Robert Capa stepped on a landmine, and was killed- still clutching his camera. I desire to be like these men, fighting valiantly for something worthy and good.
great, i love that picture of you on platoon night.
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