Posted on 08/12/2011 11:12:03 AM PDT by DManA
Talk to anyone in my business and they'll all say the same thing: No matter how long you write stories and put them in the newspaper, you are never really sure which ones are going to strike a nerve.
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Requests for the photo, and use of the story, have come from the Department of Veterans Affairs, military publications, Arlington National Cemetery. Soldiers in Afghanistan have inquired about the photo, including some from the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, stationed at Bagram Airfield.
"I sent a good-sized one to a base in Afghanistan because they wanted to build a memorial to members of their unit who had been killed," Glick said.
This letter, from Atlanta, was typical:
"You have no idea just how much this photo and story mean to so many of us who have served. We do not ask for special treatment; we do not ask for your gratitude; we don't even ask for your patience when we occasionally 'geeze' with old stories. We would like to have some understanding just how much service to this great nation means to each of us. Your picture and story show me that some do understand."
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BTTT
Where I live, we have lots, and lots of Bald Eagles. They never go ground level, I’ve only seen an eagle on the ground one time, and that was when it was released from a cage at a native ceremony. Neat picture, but I don’t think it’s real.
Speechless;)
Very nice.
Article talks a bit about why it is not a Photoshop job.
Where do they get the rabbits then that they bring back to their nests?
ML/NJ
My area has 4 eagles nests (bald eagles) and I see them on the ground. Just yesterday I saw a brown eagle j.ust hanging out at the side of a busy intersection.
I see them sitting in the fields and on gravel bars often.
On a trip to Alaska I had seen Eagles on the ground. I do not know if it is natural or not, but it is certainly not impossible.
Amazing photograph
The cemetery is less than a mile from the Minnesota River Valley which is ideal habitat for Eagles.
Sorry, I do Photoshop and I can see a lot of jpg artifacts around the edges of the eagle (and no where else) and its my opinion that this is fake...but I like it.
I like it, too, but it seems out of proportion.
I like it, too, but it seems out of proportion.
I don’t know why but it looks photo-shopped to me, even CGI like. Could he have drawn the scene in 3D modeling software? He could then be able to provide several shots/angles by manipulating the “camera”. So it wasn’t Photoshopped but instead a completely computer generated scene.
Suppose not, and it’s a cool picture. It just looks “funny” and not just the eagle.
They catch fish at lakes around my house and eat them on the beach, then sit on the beach chairs and groom themselves. They generally own their territory and tolerate us as onlookers.
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