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02/28/2005 03:09:56 PM · #1 |
| How about an Armed Forces challenge? Take a photo intended to honor those who protect & defend your country. |
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03/01/2005 11:58:27 AM · #2 |
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03/01/2005 12:03:13 PM · #3 |
I already have an excellent idea for this challenge if it happens.
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03/01/2005 12:04:59 PM · #4 |
I think it might turn out to be a very US orientated challenge.
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03/01/2005 12:11:48 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
I think it might turn out to be a very US orientated challenge. |
Does Holland not have any kind of army, navy, national guard or even war memorials? |
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03/01/2005 12:12:15 PM · #6 |
You will need permission from the Military officials to take photo of them~
Or ,you might be acused of spying or endangering the personnel !
Armed Pitsa-force :-)
Message edited by author 2005-03-01 12:14:18. |
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03/01/2005 12:22:18 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by pitsaman:
You will need permission from the Military officials to take photo of them~
Or ,you might be acused of spying or endangering the personnel !
Armed Pitsa-force :-)
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Man I have to find my pictures when I served in Romania before Ceausescu's fall.
Same God damn uniforms.
You made me think of that times.
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03/01/2005 12:33:50 PM · #8 |
Anyone who lives in Europe, especially, has a plethora of sites available within easy distance honoring the fallen of WWII, so they should have a field day with this challenge if it ever happens. Americans, on the other hand, unless they live near a base, rarely see their military, and our battle monuments are on the Eastern seaboartd mostly (Civil War and revolutionary War).
Robt.
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03/01/2005 12:36:23 PM · #9 |
Americans can photograph their flag.
/me ducks |
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03/01/2005 12:41:01 PM · #10 |
I've spent the last few days taking 500+ pics of Peruvian sailors. Not our servicemen, but I'll share a couple.
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03/01/2005 12:54:46 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by kpriest:
Originally posted by Azrifel:
I think it might turn out to be a very US orientated challenge. |
Does Holland not have any kind of army, navy, national guard or even war memorials? |
Army, Navy and Airforce but you can't get close (excluding the days when they want to display their stuff) and what you can see is not interesting at all. Not many interesting war memorials either. 50 years of rather leftwing policies did not make an athmosphere where you feel really proud of the armed forces. It's more like 'just another job'. Doesn't mean I feel that way, but there is no mood in Holland like "I want to honour our armed forces." You wouldn't believe the discussion we had last week about a monument honouring the fallen men from the Eastindia (Now Indonesia) actions in the late '40s. You almost get the feeling that the socialists and green parties would rather bring them all before a tribunal.
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03/01/2005 01:31:36 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by aronya1:
How about an Armed Forces challenge? Take a photo intended to honor those who protect & defend your country. |
Yeah, extra points for capturing jingoism. |
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03/01/2005 01:43:14 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by phreakon:
Originally posted by aronya1:
How about an Armed Forces challenge? Take a photo intended to honor those who protect & defend your country. |
Yeah, extra points for capturing jingoism. |
Hmmmmmmmmmmm,,,, what are the odds that this could initiate a rant????
Ray |
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03/01/2005 02:00:58 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Originally posted by phreakon:
Originally posted by aronya1:
How about an Armed Forces challenge? Take a photo intended to honor those who protect & defend your country. |
Yeah, extra points for capturing jingoism. |
Hmmmmmmmmmmm,,,, what are the odds that this could initiate a rant????
Ray |
That all depends on DP users knowledge of the word jingoism, but I won't rant. Just adding a smidgent of cynical humor. |
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03/01/2005 02:04:58 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by xion:
Americans can photograph their flag.
/me ducks |
I can think of a few other countries where photographing the flag might fit as well. |
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03/01/2005 02:07:51 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by uctopuk:
Originally posted by xion:
Americans can photograph their flag.
/me ducks |
I can think of a few other countries where photographing the flag might fit as well. |
True, but they tend not to...
I'll get my coat... ;-) |
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03/01/2005 02:08:26 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by phreakon:
That all depends on DP users knowledge of the word jingoism, but I won't rant. Just adding a smidgent of cynical humor. |
New word for me: jingoism = the belligerent spirit or foreign policy of jingoes; chauvinism
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03/01/2005 02:11:26 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by uctopuk:
Originally posted by xion:
Americans can photograph their flag.
/me ducks |
I can think of a few other countries where photographing the flag might fit as well. |
Then make it a flag challenge. Honoring the military is one thing. Nationalism (from any country)has never apealed to me though.
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03/01/2005 02:18:48 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by WobblyLegs:
Originally posted by uctopuk:
Originally posted by xion:
Americans can photograph their flag.
/me ducks |
I can think of a few other countries where photographing the flag might fit as well. |
True, but they tend not to... |
They tend not to... export their form of government aggressively and violently (Germany)? ... invade others ideologically opposed to their way of life (Russia)? ... Legislate cultural beliefs domestically and internationally (France)? Or did you have something else in mind?
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03/01/2005 02:22:35 PM · #20 |
............and were off
Ray |
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03/01/2005 02:22:36 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by Tiberius:
Originally posted by phreakon:
That all depends on DP users knowledge of the word jingoism, but I won't rant. Just adding a smidgent of cynical humor. |
New word for me: jingoism = the belligerent spirit or foreign policy of jingoes; chauvinism |
I was referring to the "extreme nationalism" part of the definition. |
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03/01/2005 02:26:13 PM · #22 |
Here we go again. Can the freakin rhetoric. Go take pictures instead.
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03/01/2005 02:28:49 PM · #23 |
This should be fun to watch. Imagine how much fun the challenge will be. Politics and art. Rich.
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03/01/2005 02:47:20 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by Beagleboy:
Here we go again. Can the freakin rhetoric. Go take pictures instead. |
Aw, c'mon, Beagleboy, we're just having some fun. Don't take it so seriously.
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03/01/2005 03:00:33 PM · #25 |
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