Memorial Remembrance Prints

"Remember me? You caught me on the Beaverkill, opening day, 1952."

"You're very interesting, for a civilian."

Servicemen.

"He was a very good boy."

"I guess I was a good shot, because I took down 50 Nazis...all by myself. That's how I got my silver star. Honestly, I don't consider myself a hero. I consider myself lucky."

Michael Jackson

R.I.P. ZZ Top - Dusty Hill 1949-2021

'In memory of our beloved Skippy.'

"It's going over the top? D' you realise what you've just said?"

Halo Frisbee.

"I honored her every request except for the last one: 'Harold, please stop making a scene'."

"Remember when we had to get along on twenty-one dollars a month!"

'Forget what?'

'One really nice thing up here is that it's always very easy to get an audience with a Pope.'

'Ol' Pete was an angler to the end.'

The unknown war poet.

Veterans Day '20

'Of course we've got Marshall amps Jim! Only the best up here.'

"We laughed. We cried. But mostly we watched TV."

Monument in the park for Squirrel Feeder

"Good old Frank. He was always thinking of others."

'Who said the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Just look at that card Hans Greber and we have haven't been shot at all day.'

"Don’t you think it’s about time you stopped insisting on your uncle Bill being here for Christmas?"

Old veteran walking in sun casting a giant shadow as a young soldier

Veterans Day US

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Earth and war

'There's a little bit of my late husband in every glass - I used his ashes as a fining agent.'

Siege of Vicksburg - Sappers Approach Confederate Fortifications

Heavenly Gazette This Heavenly Gazette is awfully thin. There doesn't seem to be a financial section Because you can't take it with you. There's no weather forecast. It's perfect every day. I don't see any sports scores. Everybody's a winner up here. And there are no political reports. Of course not in paradise we don't hear anything about politics!

'He never listened to his mother!'

Football fans discuss a deceased manager: A giant, a legend, much loved. Didn't we sack him?

A man in a little rowboat goes to his grave.

Harry Chauvel & T. E. Lawrence

This time...War on Terrorism.