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Rick Koth
{K:2971} 1/29/2010
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Thanks for the comments to my photos. I'm sorry if I went overboard with my comment to Rog and Wolf. I like both of them also but I tend to get upset when Anyone bashes the good ole U. S. of A.
Enough said!
Yes my father and mother are buried at Arlington. In this picture I'm standing at his grave. The Pentagon is about 200 yards behind me which is rather ironic because as a boy I remember my dad complaining about "them damn bueracrats at the Pentagon"
Now he has to spend eternity looking at it. (the plane hit that side by the way)
My dad joined the army at the beginning of WW2 and fought under Gen George Patton in europe with the ghost corp. My mother was a war bride from Cheshire England. After that war and ten years he left the armie and joined the air force and then headed over to Korea for another war. After reaching the rank of Lt. Colonel he left the air force and went to work for the armie corp of engineers as a civilian until his death at the young age of 50. (heart attack)
He was an amazing man! The epitome of the Greatest Generation.
If I end up half the man my father was I will feel I have accomplished much.
Speaking of Arlington cemetary, since my parents are buried there I have a pass to drive anywhere in the cemetary I want. It's great, at least once a year I take my children down and we just wander around. I've shown them Audie Murphy's grave. It's good to show the children the history as opposed to just reading about it. There is so much more to see there than the few things the tour giudes tell you about. I always tell how it was Gen Lee's home until war and how the north buried there dead there in retaliation for Lee going with the south.He never lived there after the war. The civil war fasinates me.
I was there a couple of days after Christmas With my son and daughter and we were at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier when a Bald Eagle flew up from the river and started circling over the tomb. Boy that was goosebump central. I don't think there many dry eyes.
Enough of my rambling.
Thanks again for your comments and don't ever lose your sense of humor. I can't tell you how many times I've laughed at your porfolio. If one is having a bad day he needs look no further than the wit of Jim Loy.
Take care my friend.
Rick
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Jim Loy
{K:31693} 1/28/2010
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Came back for another look. I have a history teaching degree. The state of Illinois allows me to teach history, geography, psychology, economics, world history, honors history(and I am pretty darn good at Japanese history) I would love to hear your father's story. You can drop me a note here: kidney_pie@hotmail.com
jim
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Jim Loy
{K:31693} 1/28/2010
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Nice pic... I remember standing near a tree and marking time waiting for the shuttle... and I looked down and there was... Audie Murphy.... Your father is there? That is grand.
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Rick Koth
{K:2971} 5/19/2007
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Thank you for your comment George. Actually I was standing on my fathers grave and this scene just caught my eye. Minor sharpening and cropping only. I started to cropp the headstones on the left but decided not to. Once again, thanks for your comments. Arlington Cemetary really is an awsome place.
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George Marks
{K:15437} 5/18/2007
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I appreciate the way you have used the lines formed by the headstones to draw the eye to the flowers at the only grave with them. This leads me to ask if you found this scene as you show it here, or did you place the flowers for the effect they give?
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Mike Adams
{K:7180} 5/18/2007
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Very nice photo.
Wonderful timing to release this as memorial day is coming up soon.
I have a real similar shot and it has always been a favorite!
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Naseer Fedaee
{K:4956} 5/18/2007
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One of your nice photo,..
great job
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 5/18/2007
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Very good image, a unique feeling here because ....only one grave has flowers, really emotive image, I only could put that 'cenetr subject' at a corner of the image and not so centered into the frame. Beautiful depth feeling too as you write, the graves makes nice 'lines', very nice.
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