Digital BW, The Print

War is hell and human history documents man's inhumanity toward his 
fellow man from the dawn of civilizian
in the Tigris-Euphrates valley to today. From the tribal wars in the 
early civiliziations - to the Ottoman Turks, to the Romans, to the era 
of slavery when the Spanish and Dutch were trading in human beings, to 
the treatment of US Civil War prisioners ( should take a tour of the 
museum at the site of "Andersonville" for an eye opener), to the WW II 
German "ethinic cleansing" of the Jews, to the US treatment of Asian 
minorities during WWII, to the Serbs "ethinic cleansing" of the Muslim 
population in the Balkans.  

When you think we may have reached a higher level of civilization, one 
is sadly confronted by the news from Kashmir, from Rawanda, etc. I 
suspect some of it is overlooked in the history books since there are 
not enought pages to cover it from the dawn of what we call 
civilization.  The one thing I am quite sure of is we are not going to 
solve this problem on this forum.

Can we get back to photography.

Truman


Jon wrote:

>Thanks for the enlightening post Rick.
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>I remember coming across a book in college that was a collection of
>photographs censored by the US Government during WWII. There were many
>pictures of warehouses full of material collected in scrap drives--much of
>the rubber, metal, etc. rotting away as it couldn't be recycled using
>then-current technology.
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>Other pictures censored were of non-caucasian or mixed race people that had
>either been successful, brave, or were shown mixing with caucasians
>(especially if they were of African/Latin descent).
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>The photograph that stands out the most in my memory was one of a
>Japanese-American man standing at the door of his car at the gate of one of
>the internment camps. He had an agitated, confused look on his face--and was
>neatly dressed in his heavily decorated WWI US Army uniform.
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>This only makes me wonder even more what is going on right now in Guantanamo
>Bay.
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>http://web.amnesty.org/web/wire.nsf/April2002/guantanamo
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>Jon
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