On the second from last in that series of pictures, I couldn’t accurately capture his eyes in the shot.
He has blue eyes, and in that part of the movie I took the shot from, they literally glow blue, almost translucent for a split second or so. I found the effect to be a powerful one.
There were tough people back in those days. Yes...we are very soft in comparison. It reminds me of that verse from somewhere:
Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times.
I hope we aren’t at the last line, but I suspect we are.
I see what you mean. Glowing blue eyes would’ve really made that photo.
As to our currently weak national character, if we were in the usual historical setting of slower technological change, I think our current weakness would sink us.
But the unbelievably rapid advance in technology is changing the environment so rapidly, I don’t know how things will all shake out.