Seen some before, now to check out the B-32. Know nothing about this bomber.
hardscrabble farmer
October 24, 2014 9:35 am
The 2,800 year old skeletons in the grave was very touching. Incredible collection. Thanks for sharing.
Dutchman
October 24, 2014 10:50 am
“To have an elongated head was an ideal of beauty among the Mangbetu people, 1930”
Was that picture taken in Camden NJ?
Thinker
October 24, 2014 11:06 am
Had to look up the nine kings:
The nine European Monarchs who attended the funeral of Edward VII, photographed at Windsor Castle on 20 May 1910. Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Manuel II of Portugal, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King George I of Greece and King Albert I of Belgium. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.
Amazing collection of photos. Thanks for pulling all this together!
flash
October 24, 2014 4:41 pm
the two most poignant pics for me where Patton’s grieving dog and Einsteins busy desk… a little portrait in time on the personality of two of the great ones.
SSS
October 24, 2014 4:46 pm
Thank for the pics, Admin. Enjoyed them.
“Now to check out the B-32. Know nothing about this bomber.”
—Welshman
Me too, and I have a well above average knowledge of military aircraft. B-17, B-24, B-25, B/A-26, B-29. All check. Then my mind skips to the B-36. The B-32 was not there. Blank screen.
dc.sunsets
October 24, 2014 4:49 pm
Fascinating.
Recall that the reason we see damning photos of Nazi atrocities is that they lost the war.
Only the worst nightmares can conjure what kinds of photos reside inside the Pentagram—er—Pentagon.
Here we are in 2014 and the DoD has yet to release full-color movies filmed in the immediate aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Wars never change much, except for those who die (and whose familial line ends with them.) Hanoi has a stock market today, and the USA’s moral enemies of 70 years ago are major trading partners. The USSR’s dictatorship came and went, and while the Chi-Coms are not exactly free, neither are they all that communist. What’s all that different in China today vs. 500 years ago, politically?
The key to wars is to avoid them. Sit them out. Find a hole and await a return to sanity.
I shudder to think what kind of warfare will be spawned when this antebellum period finally ends and we reap all the financial and economic misery sown these past decades of debt-orgy folly.
Angry people go to war, and oh–how people are going to be ANGRY.
dc.sunsets
October 24, 2014 4:57 pm
With but few exceptions, all these photos concern warfare.
This reminds me that every year we live under the threat on moments’ notice of nuclear annihilation brings us one year closer to when a series of coincidences and miscalculations brings it about, much as a year without a major earthquake simply means the forces building toward the next one continue apace.
I sincerely doubt that the human race will endure for century after century with mortal men holding the indescribable horrors of nuclear or biological weaponry in their hands. If we had any kind of collective intelligence at all we’d all demand our rulers eliminate all such weaponry and place a king’s ransom on the heads (not bodies, just heads) of people who dared to reinstitute such horrific technologies.
dc.sunsets
October 24, 2014 5:02 pm
Humanity’s only hope is the break-up of all large polities.
Only large, anonymous, rich polities like a USA or the other massive nation-states have the means to divert the wealth necessary to pursue species-obliterating weaponry.
I wonder if mankind will still be around in a century or three? Given the race to the bottom of our elected rulers, either all that will be left are insects or we’ll be full on Idiocracy.
[img]http://youtu.be/S5wHRryA2aw[/img]
dc.sunsets
October 24, 2014 5:02 pm
try again.
SSS
October 24, 2014 5:03 pm
Speaking of rare photos, and since it’s TGIF, why not head into the weekend with some possible rare personal photos TBPers might have. Here’s one of me taken when I was younger. Except for less hair, I haven’t changed that much.
SSS protege’ shows off his “learning” from master super sleuth extraordinaire …keeping you safe by keeping it real…actual DEA slogan.
THE DEA only recruits quality …and sometimes bed-wetting booger eaters like SSS , just because anal retentive control freaking assholes willing to kill their fellow man over substance abuse are in very short supply.
Actual pic SSS, used on personal DEA ID , which gained him access to international drug dens no man without a doody hole the size of coffee would dare venture. He does love his bacon…and will squeal like a pig for it.
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Dr. Stucky's Teaching Assistant
October 24, 2014 9:38 pm
flash, admit it, pictures of nekkid men and bacon tun you on. this was just an excuse to re-post this sexy selfie.
Billy
October 24, 2014 9:57 pm
By far the coolest thread I’ve seen on TBP…
Daddy was a combat photographer during the Korean War.. we still have his portfolio. The guy had an eye, that’s for certain…
Dr. Stucky's Teaching Assistant
October 24, 2014 10:03 pm
Enuf yammering, Billy, let’s see them.
Brian
October 24, 2014 10:17 pm
Perhaps he is just jealous that you have so much meat to handle?
ottomatik
October 24, 2014 10:40 pm
Admin-thank you.
If WWI was merely a prelude to WWII, imagine what will WWIII look like in pics/vids.
Flash/SSS- that is some funny damn shit you monkeys are throwing around. SSS, careful you might get some on your Abs, Flash, dont get any on his ID badge.
Dr. Stucky's Teaching Assistant
October 25, 2014 1:44 am
Otto Adolf Eichmann (pronounced [ˈɔto ˈaːdɔlf ˈaɪ̯çman]; 19 March 1906 – 31 May 1962) was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was charged by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. In 1960, he was captured in Argentina by the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Following a widely publicised trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962.
After an unremarkable school career, Eichmann briefly worked for his father’s mining company in Austria, where the family had moved in 1914. He worked as a travelling oil salesman beginning in 1927 and joined the Nazi Party and SS in 1932. After returning to Germany in 1933, he joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service), where he was appointed head of the department responsible for Jewish affairs—especially emigration, which the Nazis encouraged through violence and economic pressure. After the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Eichmann and his staff arranged for Jews to be concentrated into ghettos in major cities with the expectation they would be transported farther east or overseas. Eichmann drew up plans for a Jewish reservation, first at Nisko in south-east Poland and later in Madagascar, but neither of these plans was ever carried out.
As the Nazis began the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, their Jewish policy changed from emigration to extermination. To co-ordinate planning for the genocide, Heydrich hosted the regime’s administrative leaders at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942. Eichmann collected information for Heydrich, attended the conference, and prepared the minutes. Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, where the victims were gassed. After Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Eichmann oversaw the deportation and extermination of that country’s Jewish population. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where 75 to 90 per cent were killed on arrival. By the time the transports were stopped in July, 437,000 of Hungary’s 725,000 Jews had been killed. Historian Richard J. Evans estimates that between 5½ and 6 million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis. Eichmann said towards the end of the war that he would “leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”[1]
Regarding the Mangbetu mother: So, what is it about breasts that makes North Americans SO obsessed with them as sexual objects? In the course of history many different parts of the female body have been fetishes for men, for example ankles, necks, and tiny feet (in China)… so WHY breast obsession in our age?
It seems to be linked to the fact that breasts are viewed very strongly as sexual body parts, and NOT seen as “baby feeders.” In fact, at least some Americans are about to forget their natural function!
In the fall of 1993, one of the undergraduate students in my ‘Women and Culture’ course was totally flabbergasted to discover that the biological function of women’s breasts was for feeding children. With obvious shock and disgust evident in her voice she asked, ‘You mean women’s breasts are like a cow’s udder?’ That a young woman could reach college without ever having even heard of women using their breasts to feed their children is a sad commentary on American culture.
Katherine Dettwyler as quoted in The Breastfeeding Action Committee of Edmonton (BACE) report about Breastfeeding at Municipal Pools in Canada
Dr. Stucky's Teaching Assistant
October 25, 2014 2:34 am
corregidor
October 25, 2014 10:44 am
“poignant pics for me where Patton’s grieving dog and Einsteins busy desk”
Flash
and regarding an abandoned boy in the ruins, or women and children murdered by nazis, nothing…
sound of crickets
man, you’re seriously fucked up
flash
October 25, 2014 11:10 am
corregidor—and regarding an abandoned boy in the ruins, or women and children murdered by nazis, nothing…
sound of crickets
We could play your ignorant jingoist cricket game all day and still not get anywhere…so in a nutshell..GFY..asshole.
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KaD
October 25, 2014 11:58 am
Flash-yeah, the abandoned kid and the young crying German soldier hit me the most. War is an abomination. Why don’t we just stop doing it?
flash
October 25, 2014 1:34 pm
KaD , certainly war is a disgusting useless abomination and that said , there is lesson sought and a back story behind all photographs….even modern day selfies , but most sane internet commentators reserve their opinions, due to time and interest constraints to the exceptionally emotive or the extremely absurd.
For someone to assume my personal feeling about war and the victors versus the defeated is outstandingly stupid and indicative of the crass nature of the moron who thinks he knows the personal philosophy of an internet commenter due to one sentence.
Chicago999444
October 25, 2014 1:41 pm
The one of the Turkish authorities teasing their starving victims with the slice of bread is enough to rob me of any last shred of hope I ever had for the human species. While many of these photos that depict humans at their worst, or at their last extremity of suffering, are very painful to look upon, the sheer, willful cruelty on display in that one tells you everything that is wrong with human nature, and leaves you with no hope that we will ever improve as a species.
Dr. Stucky's Teaching Assistant
October 25, 2014 3:26 pm
Excellent comments, Dr. Stuck will be pleased.
corregidor, I believe Billy said it best: Words fail me.
Chicago999444
October 25, 2014 3:37 pm
to Stucky’s Teaching Assistant:
How on Earth did a female as dumb as the one who did not know what women’s breasts are for, even get toilet trained?
I mean, I suppose I just thought everyone had this figured out by the age of 10.
Unfortunately, I too well understand her “shock and disgust”. My Silent Gen mother could not breast-feed either of her kids successfully, and doctors in the 50s actively discouraged mothers from doing so in any case. My mother came from an oh-so-proper family that regarded public breastfeeding as disgusting and vulgar, something that only “hoosiers” did, and all the way to the end of her life, my mother always expressed disgust at the sight of a woman nursing her kid in public. Breastfeeding came back into style in a big way in the 70s as the “natural” and “organic” way to feed your children, and there’s no disputing the superiority of mother’s milk. It contains everything a child needs to be healthy and confers many immunities.
I’m sorry to say that I still feel a twinge of disgust at mothers nursing in public, but I’m working hard to overcome it and do my best to accommodate nursing moms. Having a baby is confining enough without feeling that you must treat feeding your baby as nature intended, as another “bathroom” function.
Dr. Stucky's Teaching Assistant
October 25, 2014 4:10 pm
1. My buddy Dave from NH expressed his disgust at an acquaintance who was nursing her baby. She asked if he wanted the other one.
2. In old days, you saw women nursing their babies in public, they just whipped out that fat old jug and fed the baby, there was nothing to say to that anymore than you could say anyhing to a couple kissing in public. But that was then.
3. As a picture of security there is no better metaphor than a baby nursing at mom’s breast.
Dr. Stucky's Teaching Assistant
October 25, 2014 4:18 pm
as nature intended, as another “bathroom” function.
Like sex. People are disgusted by PDA and will say, Get a room. Meaning: go to the nearest bathroom.
Billy
October 25, 2014 5:54 pm
“Enuf yammering, Billy, let’s see them. ”
Easier said than done…
I would have to drive the 100 miles to see my Mother. She has them. Then, I’d have to go through the hundreds of photos he took, looking for a good representative sample… then, I’d have to have them all scanned/digitized.
If anyone really wanted to see them, it’s a hassle, but I can do it… but only if there is respect there.
Maybe Jim would want to run them? I don’t know beans about posting articles, and I don’t want to… but if y’all really want to see them, then okay…
Sound off if you want to hear them… if there’s enough folks wanting it, then I will make the effort..
B
flash
October 25, 2014 6:19 pm
Billy-Sound off if you want to hear them .
I’m somewhat of an amateur pic snapper myself and love to peruse the history recorded in image ..as well as word. I’m looking forward to the images you may have that have never before been seen by the public eye…most assuredly..bring it on.
overthecliff
October 25, 2014 6:19 pm
Go for it Billy.
Sensetti
October 25, 2014 6:57 pm
Great way to remember your father. Put his work on the net where it may last as long as the human race. If you have the time it would be worth it.
Dr. Stucky's Teaching Assistant
October 25, 2014 11:04 pm
Billy, where your at 100 miles is two states away. Over here it is a morning commute. If mom won’t release the pics, maybe you can copy them on your iPhone. They might have commercial value so I’d say if you publish no more than a couple two or three, they would be interesting to see.
Billy
October 25, 2014 11:28 pm
Herr Doktor,
100 miles is two states? Ehh. not so much. 100 miles is the drive from our farm to my Mama’s house up in the northern part of the Commonwealth… and I don’t – and never will – own any iCrap. So I’ll have to get them scanned to disk, most likely. Which is fine with me.
The idea that they might have commercial value never occurred to me. They’re certainly good enough. Since they’re not technically mine, I will have to discuss this with my mother… but I don’t see the harm in letting a couple out.
Of course, it all depends on Admin. If he is enthusiastic about it, then I got no problem with it…
SSS
October 25, 2014 11:54 pm
Billy
I mistakenly tried to turn this thread into a weekend TBP theatrical. You went in a different direction with a comment on your father’s war photos of Korea.
IF YOU HAVE THE TIME AND INCLINATION ….. I honestly believe you would be doing your father’s memory a great service and honor by making an effort to publish his photos. If they are really good, consider a copyright before posting.
Unique professional war photos, especially of the “forgotten” Korean War, are always in demand. I strongly encourage you to go for it. Make us here on TBP proud.
Dr. Stucky's Teaching Assistant
October 26, 2014 1:05 am
Billy, I was a simple coyote not 2 days ago but drafted myself as Stuck’s teaching assistant because folks always have to pitch in around here. As Stuck’s representative, I encourage you to do as SSS advises. Good Luck.
Good pics Admin.,
Seen some before, now to check out the B-32. Know nothing about this bomber.
The 2,800 year old skeletons in the grave was very touching. Incredible collection. Thanks for sharing.
“To have an elongated head was an ideal of beauty among the Mangbetu people, 1930”
Was that picture taken in Camden NJ?
Had to look up the nine kings:
The nine European Monarchs who attended the funeral of Edward VII, photographed at Windsor Castle on 20 May 1910. Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Manuel II of Portugal, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King George I of Greece and King Albert I of Belgium. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.
Amazing collection of photos. Thanks for pulling all this together!
the two most poignant pics for me where Patton’s grieving dog and Einsteins busy desk… a little portrait in time on the personality of two of the great ones.
Thank for the pics, Admin. Enjoyed them.
“Now to check out the B-32. Know nothing about this bomber.”
—Welshman
Me too, and I have a well above average knowledge of military aircraft. B-17, B-24, B-25, B/A-26, B-29. All check. Then my mind skips to the B-36. The B-32 was not there. Blank screen.
Fascinating.
Recall that the reason we see damning photos of Nazi atrocities is that they lost the war.
Only the worst nightmares can conjure what kinds of photos reside inside the Pentagram—er—Pentagon.
Here we are in 2014 and the DoD has yet to release full-color movies filmed in the immediate aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Wars never change much, except for those who die (and whose familial line ends with them.) Hanoi has a stock market today, and the USA’s moral enemies of 70 years ago are major trading partners. The USSR’s dictatorship came and went, and while the Chi-Coms are not exactly free, neither are they all that communist. What’s all that different in China today vs. 500 years ago, politically?
The key to wars is to avoid them. Sit them out. Find a hole and await a return to sanity.
I shudder to think what kind of warfare will be spawned when this antebellum period finally ends and we reap all the financial and economic misery sown these past decades of debt-orgy folly.
Angry people go to war, and oh–how people are going to be ANGRY.
With but few exceptions, all these photos concern warfare.
This reminds me that every year we live under the threat on moments’ notice of nuclear annihilation brings us one year closer to when a series of coincidences and miscalculations brings it about, much as a year without a major earthquake simply means the forces building toward the next one continue apace.
I sincerely doubt that the human race will endure for century after century with mortal men holding the indescribable horrors of nuclear or biological weaponry in their hands. If we had any kind of collective intelligence at all we’d all demand our rulers eliminate all such weaponry and place a king’s ransom on the heads (not bodies, just heads) of people who dared to reinstitute such horrific technologies.
Humanity’s only hope is the break-up of all large polities.
Only large, anonymous, rich polities like a USA or the other massive nation-states have the means to divert the wealth necessary to pursue species-obliterating weaponry.
I wonder if mankind will still be around in a century or three? Given the race to the bottom of our elected rulers, either all that will be left are insects or we’ll be full on Idiocracy.
[img]http://youtu.be/S5wHRryA2aw[/img]
try again.
Speaking of rare photos, and since it’s TGIF, why not head into the weekend with some possible rare personal photos TBPers might have. Here’s one of me taken when I was younger. Except for less hair, I haven’t changed that much.
[img]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS4WgHeOoKTpd7JntY75baYwy0Tm08iNQAhvQt-CQnclIbGHCx7[/img]
Only known photo of flash.
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SSS protege’ shows off his “learning” from master super sleuth extraordinaire …keeping you safe by keeping it real…actual DEA slogan.
THE DEA only recruits quality …and sometimes bed-wetting booger eaters like SSS , just because anal retentive control freaking assholes willing to kill their fellow man over substance abuse are in very short supply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmRN00KbCr8
Actual pic SSS, used on personal DEA ID , which gained him access to international drug dens no man without a doody hole the size of coffee would dare venture. He does love his bacon…and will squeal like a pig for it.
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flash, admit it, pictures of nekkid men and bacon tun you on. this was just an excuse to re-post this sexy selfie.
By far the coolest thread I’ve seen on TBP…
Daddy was a combat photographer during the Korean War.. we still have his portfolio. The guy had an eye, that’s for certain…
Enuf yammering, Billy, let’s see them.
Perhaps he is just jealous that you have so much meat to handle?
Admin-thank you.
If WWI was merely a prelude to WWII, imagine what will WWIII look like in pics/vids.
Flash/SSS- that is some funny damn shit you monkeys are throwing around. SSS, careful you might get some on your Abs, Flash, dont get any on his ID badge.
Otto Adolf Eichmann (pronounced [ˈɔto ˈaːdɔlf ˈaɪ̯çman]; 19 March 1906 – 31 May 1962) was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was charged by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. In 1960, he was captured in Argentina by the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Following a widely publicised trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962.
After an unremarkable school career, Eichmann briefly worked for his father’s mining company in Austria, where the family had moved in 1914. He worked as a travelling oil salesman beginning in 1927 and joined the Nazi Party and SS in 1932. After returning to Germany in 1933, he joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service), where he was appointed head of the department responsible for Jewish affairs—especially emigration, which the Nazis encouraged through violence and economic pressure. After the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Eichmann and his staff arranged for Jews to be concentrated into ghettos in major cities with the expectation they would be transported farther east or overseas. Eichmann drew up plans for a Jewish reservation, first at Nisko in south-east Poland and later in Madagascar, but neither of these plans was ever carried out.
As the Nazis began the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, their Jewish policy changed from emigration to extermination. To co-ordinate planning for the genocide, Heydrich hosted the regime’s administrative leaders at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942. Eichmann collected information for Heydrich, attended the conference, and prepared the minutes. Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, where the victims were gassed. After Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Eichmann oversaw the deportation and extermination of that country’s Jewish population. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where 75 to 90 per cent were killed on arrival. By the time the transports were stopped in July, 437,000 of Hungary’s 725,000 Jews had been killed. Historian Richard J. Evans estimates that between 5½ and 6 million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis. Eichmann said towards the end of the war that he would “leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gvrIqNaZQQs
Regarding the Mangbetu mother: So, what is it about breasts that makes North Americans SO obsessed with them as sexual objects? In the course of history many different parts of the female body have been fetishes for men, for example ankles, necks, and tiny feet (in China)… so WHY breast obsession in our age?
It seems to be linked to the fact that breasts are viewed very strongly as sexual body parts, and NOT seen as “baby feeders.” In fact, at least some Americans are about to forget their natural function!
In the fall of 1993, one of the undergraduate students in my ‘Women and Culture’ course was totally flabbergasted to discover that the biological function of women’s breasts was for feeding children. With obvious shock and disgust evident in her voice she asked, ‘You mean women’s breasts are like a cow’s udder?’ That a young woman could reach college without ever having even heard of women using their breasts to feed their children is a sad commentary on American culture.
Katherine Dettwyler as quoted in The Breastfeeding Action Committee of Edmonton (BACE) report about Breastfeeding at Municipal Pools in Canada
“poignant pics for me where Patton’s grieving dog and Einsteins busy desk”
Flash
and regarding an abandoned boy in the ruins, or women and children murdered by nazis, nothing…
sound of crickets
man, you’re seriously fucked up
corregidor—and regarding an abandoned boy in the ruins, or women and children murdered by nazis, nothing…
sound of crickets
We could play your ignorant jingoist cricket game all day and still not get anywhere…so in a nutshell..GFY..asshole.
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Flash-yeah, the abandoned kid and the young crying German soldier hit me the most. War is an abomination. Why don’t we just stop doing it?
KaD , certainly war is a disgusting useless abomination and that said , there is lesson sought and a back story behind all photographs….even modern day selfies , but most sane internet commentators reserve their opinions, due to time and interest constraints to the exceptionally emotive or the extremely absurd.
For someone to assume my personal feeling about war and the victors versus the defeated is outstandingly stupid and indicative of the crass nature of the moron who thinks he knows the personal philosophy of an internet commenter due to one sentence.
The one of the Turkish authorities teasing their starving victims with the slice of bread is enough to rob me of any last shred of hope I ever had for the human species. While many of these photos that depict humans at their worst, or at their last extremity of suffering, are very painful to look upon, the sheer, willful cruelty on display in that one tells you everything that is wrong with human nature, and leaves you with no hope that we will ever improve as a species.
Excellent comments, Dr. Stuck will be pleased.
corregidor, I believe Billy said it best: Words fail me.
to Stucky’s Teaching Assistant:
How on Earth did a female as dumb as the one who did not know what women’s breasts are for, even get toilet trained?
I mean, I suppose I just thought everyone had this figured out by the age of 10.
Unfortunately, I too well understand her “shock and disgust”. My Silent Gen mother could not breast-feed either of her kids successfully, and doctors in the 50s actively discouraged mothers from doing so in any case. My mother came from an oh-so-proper family that regarded public breastfeeding as disgusting and vulgar, something that only “hoosiers” did, and all the way to the end of her life, my mother always expressed disgust at the sight of a woman nursing her kid in public. Breastfeeding came back into style in a big way in the 70s as the “natural” and “organic” way to feed your children, and there’s no disputing the superiority of mother’s milk. It contains everything a child needs to be healthy and confers many immunities.
I’m sorry to say that I still feel a twinge of disgust at mothers nursing in public, but I’m working hard to overcome it and do my best to accommodate nursing moms. Having a baby is confining enough without feeling that you must treat feeding your baby as nature intended, as another “bathroom” function.
1. My buddy Dave from NH expressed his disgust at an acquaintance who was nursing her baby. She asked if he wanted the other one.
2. In old days, you saw women nursing their babies in public, they just whipped out that fat old jug and fed the baby, there was nothing to say to that anymore than you could say anyhing to a couple kissing in public. But that was then.
3. As a picture of security there is no better metaphor than a baby nursing at mom’s breast.
as nature intended, as another “bathroom” function.
Like sex. People are disgusted by PDA and will say, Get a room. Meaning: go to the nearest bathroom.
“Enuf yammering, Billy, let’s see them. ”
Easier said than done…
I would have to drive the 100 miles to see my Mother. She has them. Then, I’d have to go through the hundreds of photos he took, looking for a good representative sample… then, I’d have to have them all scanned/digitized.
If anyone really wanted to see them, it’s a hassle, but I can do it… but only if there is respect there.
Maybe Jim would want to run them? I don’t know beans about posting articles, and I don’t want to… but if y’all really want to see them, then okay…
Sound off if you want to hear them… if there’s enough folks wanting it, then I will make the effort..
B
Billy-Sound off if you want to hear them .
I’m somewhat of an amateur pic snapper myself and love to peruse the history recorded in image ..as well as word. I’m looking forward to the images you may have that have never before been seen by the public eye…most assuredly..bring it on.
Go for it Billy.
Great way to remember your father. Put his work on the net where it may last as long as the human race. If you have the time it would be worth it.
Billy, where your at 100 miles is two states away. Over here it is a morning commute. If mom won’t release the pics, maybe you can copy them on your iPhone. They might have commercial value so I’d say if you publish no more than a couple two or three, they would be interesting to see.
Herr Doktor,
100 miles is two states? Ehh. not so much. 100 miles is the drive from our farm to my Mama’s house up in the northern part of the Commonwealth… and I don’t – and never will – own any iCrap. So I’ll have to get them scanned to disk, most likely. Which is fine with me.
The idea that they might have commercial value never occurred to me. They’re certainly good enough. Since they’re not technically mine, I will have to discuss this with my mother… but I don’t see the harm in letting a couple out.
Of course, it all depends on Admin. If he is enthusiastic about it, then I got no problem with it…
Billy
I mistakenly tried to turn this thread into a weekend TBP theatrical. You went in a different direction with a comment on your father’s war photos of Korea.
IF YOU HAVE THE TIME AND INCLINATION ….. I honestly believe you would be doing your father’s memory a great service and honor by making an effort to publish his photos. If they are really good, consider a copyright before posting.
Unique professional war photos, especially of the “forgotten” Korean War, are always in demand. I strongly encourage you to go for it. Make us here on TBP proud.
Billy, I was a simple coyote not 2 days ago but drafted myself as Stuck’s teaching assistant because folks always have to pitch in around here. As Stuck’s representative, I encourage you to do as SSS advises. Good Luck.