Posted on 11/25/2007 10:56:18 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Pinups for Vets
Supporting the Troops: Part 1
By Daniel Muniz
Gina Elise wanted to show her appreciation to the people who has served their country in our armed forces and especially to our troops deployed overseas and to all of our injured vets in VA hospitals. So she decided to create the "Pin-Ups For Vets" project which consists of calendars and posters featuring herself as the model for all of the photographs.
Gina Elise chose the pin-up art that was popular back in the forties as the central theme of all her modeling. Since the pin-up girls of that nostalgic era boosted the morale of our troops who served in WWII, she believed that this project could the same for our vets of today. This native Californian then set out to find a way to recreate the image of that bygone era. The result is the "Pin-Ups For Vets" project which pays tribute to our troops and helps raise funds for our injured vets in veteran’s hospitals.
The photography is elegant and tastefully done and truly reflects the innocence of the “greatest generation”. In fact, Gina’s modeling and layout is so classy and well-done that many wives and girlfriends of vets have bought them as gifts to their loved ones who are deployed overseas.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalsummary.com ...
Pinups for Vets (Supporting Injured Vets: Part 2)
http://www.nationalsummary.com/Articles/Military/military__pinup_for_vets__2.htm
Beautiful girl. Maybe for the next calendar, she can get some of her friends to join her in posing.
Not guilty!
I think I know what I want for Christmas...and it’s not a calendar!
SpankenTruppen ping
Oh, I thought you meant veterinarians ...
Order pinup calendars and posters here at:
http://www.pinupsforvets.com/order.html
Gina Elise writes...
People ask me all the time how the “Pin-Ups For Vets” calendar project came to be...
A few years ago, I started seeing news articles about under-funded Veterans’ healthcare programs. Then, there were stories about older Veterans who lay in bed day after day, never receiving any visitors. Reports started surfacing on TV about the severe injuries sustained by our troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The more I heard about the uphill battles of our Wounded Warriors, the more convinced I was of the need to produce a project that would bring in funds to support all of our hospitalized Veterans.
My late Grandpa Lou served in the army for 4 years during World War II. I wanted to do something to honor his name. I always loved the romance of those bygone eras - especially the 1940’s - and I drew inspiration from the World War II pin-up girls, whose photos and paintings boosted morale for our soldiers fighting overseas.
I came up with the idea to recreate a nostalgic pin-up calendar that would serve three purposes:
1. The calendars would be sold to raise funds for our hospitalized Veterans.
2. The calendars would be delivered as gifts to our ill and injured Veterans with messages of appreciation from the donors.
3. The calendars would be sent to our deployed troops to help boost morale and to let them know that Americans back home are thinking of them.
I have always admired the old pinup girl pics, because the young ladies managed to project an air of innocence, of having been surprised in the bath . . . they mostly do look like the girl next door, not a floozy. My husband has an old 1940s era Parts Pup calendar up over his workbench of a stunning redhead who manages to still look like a nice girl even though she has nothing on but a strategically placed Ford coupe . . .
She's hit the tone quite well -- not perfectly, but pretty darned close.
Yikes! Now where are my Bettie Paige photos....
Pin Ups for Vets News Clip on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGEypECDAEU&eurl=http://www.pinupsforvets.com/inthenews.html
I have a collection of 1940-50s Vargas and Petty girls. I picked it up at a garage sale twenty years ago. Great stuff and almost innocent by today’s standards.
Yes, she is.
It’s funny (and I mean in a bizarre way) to think that this lady would be declared a harlot, whipped and then probably stoned to death in countries like Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, etc. That’s “The Religion of Peace” at work.
I think that ladies like Gina Elise remind our troops just what they are fighting for.
I think you’re exactly right.
Sad to say that she serves the jihadists’ dreams too of what they are fighting for. The ability to seize such girls in jihad and keep them as sex slaves as their religious text and websites (such as ask the Imam) tell them is Islamic law.
But I agree that this is a good deed.
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