Looks to me like it does.
Here's a couple of zoom-ins I just now made:
And it seems the clock was working and displaying the correct time.
Posted on 07/10/2015 12:50:42 PM PDT by ETL
Sigh. I feel that we have failed that generation.
:'D
True. A lot of laziness and sloppiness around these days.
I do too.
A remedy:
Every single politician, government employee, middle schooler, new voter / citizen should have to walk somberly thru Arlington National Cemetery, past each grave, escorted by servicemen, listening to the names of 400,000 servicemen who died for our company, and our freedom.
Would be great to have a Patriot ‘ s Holodeck for this in every state capitol.
Thank you very much for that photo, the Greatest Generation.
I’m pretty sure you weren’t alone. Funny how all those sailors looked alike!
My father, deceased now for about 20 years, was from Tennessee. My mom, deceased more recently, was an Italian-American from New York City. They met by accident in New York’s Central Park while he was on leave from the Navy.
Looking at the photo at this link
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/v-j-day-01.jpg?quality=65&strip=color&w=1012
it does look like the Bond clock says 5:51 p.m.
The old guy looks like he has an Army Air Corps uniform on. That’s what my Dad wore. He would have been 98 tomorrow.
Calvert Rye Whisky... sigh...
Looks to me like it does.
Here's a couple of zoom-ins I just now made:
And it seems the clock was working and displaying the correct time.
I don’t know about generations. My dad hated FDR, Kennedy, Carter. Glad he made it to see Reagan.
My mom outlived him by 22 years. She only watched the MSM evening news. She loved FDR (”Well - he won WWII and got us out of the Depression”) And I learned to keep my mouth shut (mostly) about obama (”Well - he’s doing the best he can.”)
And I know lots of young people signed up for the military post 9/11 and patriotism took a turn there for awhile. But yes - it was easy for most of us to go back to our TV and buying crap at the stores while our guys were spending hard years in Iraq and Afghanistan.
While those wars in no way compare to WWII, it has amazed me how much coverage WWII got in the papers of the day. Before Germany was beat it would be the first 12 to 14 pages of the paper JUST on war news.
It seemed that after a year in Iraq there was a small article on page 4 of the paper about the war.
No one in my office knows who Admiral Nimitz was.
Not going there...
We are still in this damned sand box, and more people are killed here every day. Jesus wept. The dead are not Americans so much, so they don’t rate even the fourth page anymore. I don’t think even FDR would sit by and watch were he alive today, but I can’t tell you for sure.
We opened the gates of hell and walked away. No one noticed...
Read the original article in Sky and Telescope. The announcement was anticipated, two a-bombs had been dropped on Japan in a week, and everyone knew an announcement was pending.
Joe Biden recalls it vividly. President Roosevelt rose from the grave, had his suit brushed off and got on the internet and posted the Japanese surrender terms on the White House site. Everyone in Times Square has his eyes on his iPhone in anticipation.
This is Eisenstadt photograph. What you posted (as you state) is not the Eisenstadt photograph, which was published in Life. Notice how difficult it is to read the Bond clock in this photo, it had a very short hour hand and was photographed at an oblique angle, and is outside the depth of field, iow, out of focus.
It’s sort of complicated. My Dad was in the Army Infantry in WWII, N. Africa, Italy & Germany. FDR was his Commander-in-Chief. - He mostly voted Democrat after that. (Daddy’s hearing was pretty much destroyed by the explosions in the war. So, he missed a lot of subtle hints that Democrats might be headed in the wrong direction.) To his credit, he did vote for Reagan after Jimmy Carter. I think *that* Carter debacle opened his eyes for a while anyway. - He died in 2002; but I doubt he would have voted for Obama if he had lived. (At first, he sort of *excused* draft dodging Clinton & seemed to think Hillary was such a smart lady & NOBODY detested a draft dodger worse than my Daddy back in the day. He went through a lot in combat; said that homosexuals weren’t able to endure basic training like it was back then.)
Tax money? I must have missed that in the article.
Perhaps I'm overly sensitive after watching the CF being removed from the SC Civil War Memorial today. Facts are facts, they are only incidents in wait for the radical Left to change them to fit their narrative.
I'm tired of this extreme radical Leftist movement to have history rewritten. [Not that this TS photo is a rewrite]
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