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Part of my "War Paint" photo set.
The full photo shoot can be seen on my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/nkraftphoto
Ciudad Juárez has been an important border city for more than a century, but in a lot of ways it's still just a boom town, a product of several waves of foreign investment that brought thousands upon thousands of industrial jobs. These jobs never paid as much as the same jobs would have paid just north of the border--that's why the companies came to Mexico in the first place--but they were still great wages by Mexican standards, and former rancheros flocked to the city. This happened first in the 1950s and '60s. In 1990, the city's population was holding stable at 789,000, but then NAFTA brought another wave, and the population exploded, nearly doubling in two decades.
This astounding growth brought on the first of two problems Juárez would eventually face. All this growth brought a lot of tax revenue with it, but it didn't necessarily bring it to Juárez. Tax money in Mexico tends to flow uphill into Mexico City, but very little of it comes back down. Juárez grew in a kind of uncontrolled, unsanctioned, unregulated sort of way. (Again, you'd think the free market Libertarians would love this place.) Shanty towns and shacks sprang up everywhere around the city, and city services couldn't keep up. One source I read said that the city's police was forced to ration bullets and gasoline. A certain lawlessness took over, and Juárez became an increasingly dangerous place.
This led to the second problem that finally pushed the city over the edge. The people who came to Juárez for industrial jobs were mostly poor people who had left family ties behind, and their children were left to wander the streets during the day. The kids inevitably joined together into gangs. (This is a familiar scenario to somebody from Chicago.) Violence increased. Eventually, the Juárez Cartel rose from these gangs to control the flow of illegal drugs over the border, and money of a different sort started to flow.
Things started to fall apart in 2008, when the cascading chain reaction started by the recession across the border caused 90,000 industrial jobs in Juárez to evaporate, turning thousands of people who were already poor desperate. Simultaneously, the Sinaloa Drug Cartel moved into town and started fighting the Juárez Cartel for control. It turned into a literal war that lasted for five years, with battles fought in the streets. At the height of the violence in 2010, there were 3,766 homicides in Juárez. (Chicago is famous for street violence, and this has been a bad year, but even so we'll likely see a fifth as many murders this year as Juárez saw in 2010.)
Things have calmed down for Juárez now, but the wounds are apparent. Estimates suggest about 400,000 people have left Juárez since 2009, most headed back south into the Mexican countryside. The city planning department says there are 110,000 abandoned homes throughout the city. About 10,000 business closed during the war, which adds up to 40% of the total number of businesses that once operated in the city. But the war's over, at least. This neighborhood seemed quiet while I was looking at it. There wasn't a lot of traffic.
But you can see from this why an American living in a nice El Paso house might be glad he has a fence to look at when he glances out his window toward the Rio Grande. Despite what Fox News might have implied, the crime never really made it across the border--El Paso reported 23 murders in 2010, when the fence I'm standing next to was still incomplete. But having that fence makes a person feel better, and it's probably good for the property values.
Here is the trophy for Best War Machine in the Battle theme at Bricks Cascade 2015. The trophy features a mid-nineteenth-century cannon, and it went to Brick Brigade for a build featuring marines dropping from a pair of V-22 Ospreys to battle invading mechs.
Celtic cross with octagonal base; names are inscribed on the eight sides of the plinth, with the following inscribed below (clockwise):
TO THE GLORY OF GOD | AND IN MEMORY | OF THE ABOVE | MEN OF | THIS PARISH |WHO GAVE THEIR | LIVES IN THE | GREAT WAR
On the two steps below are the following inscriptions:
DECLARATION OF WAR AUG 4 1914 | ARMISTICE NOVEMBER 11 1918 | PEACE SIGNED JUNE 28 1919
LEST WE FORGET
The names:
William Robert Gosling -- Second Lieutenant William Robert Gosling, 2nd Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 21 March 1918, aged 25; awards: MM; name recorded on the Pozières Memorial, Somme, France (Panel 64.); husband of Edith Gosling, of 33, Thistleland, Little Bedwyn, Hungerford, Berks.: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1581567/GOSLING,%20WI...
Arthur William Hillier – Possibly: Lance Corporal A. W. Hillier (Service No: 17505), 1st Bn., Royal Berkshire Regiment; died 4 October 1916; buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France (I. C. 46.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/524860/HILLIER,%20A%20W
William Knight
Thomas Martin
William Palmer
Allan Frederick Shepherd, R.A.M.C. – Private Allan Frederick Shepherd (Service No: 38295), 55th Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps; died 12 October 1917, aged 24; buried in Cement House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (IX. D. 20.); son of Elizabeth Ann Shepherd, of 5, Bedwyn Common, Hungerford, and the late Mr. D. J. Shepherd: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/98092/SHEPHERD,%20ALL...
Renford Earle Oswald Stroud, 8th Welsh Regt. – Private R. E. O. Stroud (Service No: 27139), 8th Bn., Welsh Regiment; died 6 September 1915; buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt (H. 14.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/109936/STROUD,%20R%20...
Henry Frank Whitbread, 5th Wilts Regt. – Corporal Henry Frank Whitbread (Service No: 9295), 5th Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 10 August 1915, aged 29; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 156 to 158); son of Sydney and Hannah Whitbread, of Crabtree Cottages, Savernake Forest, Marlborough: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/684298/WHITBREAD,%20H...
An air-to-air right side view of a U.S. Air Force 0-1E Bird Dog aircraft. The aircraft is used as a forward air control aircraft throughout South Vietnam. The forward air controller (FAC) spots suspected enemy strongholds and fires smoke rockets to mark the target for strike aircraft. Following a strike the FAC assesses bomb damage.
Learn more: www.expertinfantry.com
An Elite is inspecting the new war machines. They will be used in the next battle.
The Covenant has failed in the first mission, now they must shine.
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An unseen war has started on my room
Water Wars is a timely and darkly funny exploration of what happens between neighbours as the drought gets longer and tougher and then gets renamed as a ‘dry’.
The final stage of the Regional Arts Fund funded creative development, a reading in front of an invited audience, took place at the Merivale Street Studio, South Brisbane on Friday 3 December 2010.
The team involved in the development and this reading
Writer: Elaine Acworth
Executive producer: Nicholas O’Donnell
Director: Shaun Charles
Designer: Greg Clark
Lighting design: David Walters
Dramaturg: Kathryn Kelly
Actor: Jess Veumann Betts (Berenice)
Actor: Eugene Gilfedder (Tom, Bob, Reg)
Actor: Allana Noyce (Mrs P.)
Actor: Kathryn Marquet (Gally)
Actor: Angus Blackman (Cal)
Secondment - directing: Sita Borhani
The invited audience included:
Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director Queensland Theatre Company
Professor Michael Balfour, Head of Applied Theatre, Griffith University
Lewis Jones, Artistic Director, Empire Theatre
Shari Irwin, Program Manager, La Boite Theatre
Jacquie Noyce
The creative development of Water Wars has been proudly supported by the Federal Government's Regional Arts Fund.
Riot police block path of hundreds of anti-government demonstrators who sought to parade from suburban Saigon to the city center on Thursday, Oct. 31, 1974. (AP Photo)
Chitterne War Memorial
The Names:
William James Feltham, Pte., R.M.L.I., 31.3.1916 -- Private William James Feltham (Service No: PLY/6796), Royal Marine Light Infantry (H.M.S. "Indefatigable."); died 31 May 1916; name recorded on the Plymouth Naval Memorial (Panel 18): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2865920/FELTHAM,%20WI...
Harold Robinson, Pte., Ryl. Fusiliers, 3.8.1916 -- Private Harold Robinson (Service No: 7061), 20th Bn., Royal Fusiliers; died 3 August 1916; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/809383/ROBINSON,%20HA...
Hector James Down, Sgt., 1st Wilts, 21.3.1918 -- Serjeant H. J. Down (Service No: 5572), 1st Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 21 March 1918; buried in Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas-de-Calais, France (II. G. 18.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/295019/DOWN,%20H%20J
Edward George Burgess, LCpl., 13th Ryl. Sussex, 23.3.1918 -- Private Edeard George Burgess (Service No: G/17069), 13th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment; died 25 March 1918; name recorded on the Pozières Memorial, Somme, France (Panel 46 and 47.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1578157/BURGESS,%20ED...
Walter Henry Sweet, Dvr., 2nd R.H.T., A.S.C., 11.8.1918 -- The closest match is: Driver Walter Henry Sweet (Service No: T4/186134), 665th H. T. Coy., Army Service Corps; died 22 August 1918; buried in Bryngwyn (St. Peter) Churchyard, Lanarth Fawr, Monmouthshire: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/389723/SWEET,%20WALTE...
John Buckeridge Wallis, 2nd LIut. 4th Wilts, 10.10.1918 -- Second Lieutenant John Buckeridge Wallis, 4th Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 10 October 1918, aged 26; buried in Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Co. Dublin, Ireland (CE. Officers. 18.); son of Frederick B. and Ellen Ann Wallis, of Chitterne, Codford, Wilts.: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/900572/WALLIS,%20JOHN...
Arthur Feltham, LCpl., 4th Wilts,17.10.1918 -- Lance Corporal A. Feltham (Service No: 201100), 1st/4th Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 18 October 1918; buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel/Palestine (Z. 25.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/652336/FELTHAM,%20A
After I saw a video on You Tube were the Coca Cola HGV driver sabotages the Pepsi lorry so that he can deliver first I thought of a Chess Set, Coca Cola against Pepsi.
Ex-POW and U.S. Navy CPT Ernest Milvin Moore Jr., (Captured 11 Mar 67) talks to some of the children who came to the flight line to say goodbye as he leaves for the United States. CPT Moore was released in Hanoi by North Vietnam on 4 Mar 73.
Learn more: www.expertinfantry.com
...well, part of it anyway. I took a 15 mile round trip hike to Bench Lake and the last mile was an 850 feet elevation gain. The trail, if you could call it that, was not easily distinguishable and at times I know I was on a trail that had more traffic from four legged creatures than the two legged variety. At one point I came across a skeleton of an elk and exactly on the other side of the "trail" was another set of bones of another elk.
War Dance Falls is a beautiful, hard to get to place but well worth it. There are many tumbles, cascades and falls on the way up to the lake and that makes it kinda hard to tell exactly where the actual falls are.
A C-7 Caribou aircraft, transferred from the U.S. Army to the Air Force on Jan. 1, is used for airlifting supplies to forward outposts in Vietnam. With a maximum payload of three tons, the C-7A can take off and clear a 50-foot obstacle in about 1,200 feet. The aircraft, used for landing at short, unimproved airfields, can land on a 1,000-foot runway.
Learn more: www.expertinfantry.com
Here's a picture of my light table that I took while I was working on the Scrabble Wars cartoon (http://www.savagechickens.com/2010/08/scrabble-wars.html)
Cold War Kids perform at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. (Photo by Ava Tunnicliffe)
The outside area of this large museum is filled with US military gear that was left behind after the war, including tanks, helicopters and other armoured vehicles. I got the impression this was just a lure to get American tourists to visit though, so they could be properly educated about the war from the Vietnamese perspective inside the museum.
The exhibits portray an extremely one-sided and anti-American view of history, and it was difficult to know exactly how much of the historical information could be entirely trusted, but it was impossible not to be shaken by the photographs and testimonies from the victims of the chemical weapons used by the US.
Creator: Dix, Otto, 1891-1969
Title Translation: Kriegskrüppel
Date: 1920
Nationality: German
Medium: oil on canvas
Object dimensions: 150 x 200 cm
Former repository: Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister (Dresden, Germany)
Circumstances of destruction or loss: The painting was donated to the Stadtmuseum Dresden, and confiscated by Nazis in 1937 as degenerate. It was exhibited in Room 3 (National Socialist inventory number 16000) of the Entartete Kunst exhibition of degenerate art held in Munich in 1937, and later destroyed by the Nazis.
Notes: Also called War Cripples (with Self Portrait), the painting was included in the first Dada exhibition at Galerie Burchard in Berlin in 1920.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war
World War, 1914-1918
Disabled veterans
Self-portraits
Dix, Otto, 1891-1969
Wheelchairs
Amputees
Crutches
Military uniforms
Smoking
Cigars
Military decorations
Political satire
Caricature
Photo description: unlabeled clipping
Source: Library Collection of Study Photographs and Clippings, ca. 1930-2000, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Records, 225 South Street, Williamstown MA, 01267
Type: Painting
Collection: Lost Art
Connect to this item in the Clark Library digital collections
War cemetery Bayeux, Lower Normandy, France 2004
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A view of the Great Western Railway war memorial which is sited on Platform 1 at London Paddington station.
The inscription reads
"IN HONOUR OF
THOSE WHO SERVED
IN THE WORLD WARS
1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945
3312 MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR KING AND COUNTRY"
Water Wars is a timely and darkly funny exploration of what happens between neighbours as the drought gets longer and tougher and then gets renamed as a ‘dry’.
The final stage of the Regional Arts Fund funded creative development, a reading in front of an invited audience, took place at the Merivale Street Studio, South Brisbane on Friday 3 December 2010.
The team involved in the development and this reading
Writer: Elaine Acworth
Executive producer: Nicholas O’Donnell
Director: Shaun Charles
Designer: Greg Clark
Lighting design: David Walters
Dramaturg: Kathryn Kelly
Actor: Jess Veumann Betts (Berenice)
Actor: Eugene Gilfedder (Tom, Bob, Reg)
Actor: Allana Noyce (Mrs P.)
Actor: Kathryn Marquet (Gally)
Actor: Angus Blackman (Cal)
Secondment - directing: Sita Borhani
The invited audience included:
Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director Queensland Theatre Company
Professor Michael Balfour, Head of Applied Theatre, Griffith University
Lewis Jones, Artistic Director, Empire Theatre
Shari Irwin, Program Manager, La Boite Theatre
Jacquie Noyce
The creative development of Water Wars has been proudly supported by the Federal Government's Regional Arts Fund.
WATERFALL WAR MEMORIAL STAFFORDSHIRE
Situated in St James and St Bartholomew Church, Waterfall, Staffordshire
Compiled with additional information with permission of the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
This memorial also includes the names of those who did not fall.
I have not included them on the listing below.
This memorial can be seen in St James and St Bartholomew the parish church
To the Glory of God and in affectionate remembrance of the men of this parish
who fell in the Great War
1914-1918
BOLD Edward. Private 68038 106th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Died of Wounds 21 August 1917 Son of Thomas and Hannah Bold of Waterfall His last place of abode was at Hexham, Northumberland. Buried at Tincourt New British Cemetery, France.
BRADDOCK Charles. Private 21418, 4th Grenadier Guards died of wounds 4 October 1915. Son of Mr J Braddock of Stoke on Trent. Born at Foxt, Staffordshire. Buried at Sailly-Labourse Communal Cemetery, France.
PIGGOTT Frederick. Second Lieutenant, 10th East Yorkshire Regt killed in action 28 September 1918 age 26. Son of Frederick and Constance Piggott, and nephew of Mr Massie Piggott of 143 Lisburn Lane, Liverpool. who returned from the Great War. Buried at Pont-D’Achelles Military Cemetery, Nieppe.
ROBOTHAM Herman. Private TR6/13824, 14th North Staffordshire Regiment died 8th February 1917 age 35. Son of Samuel Lowe and Mary Ann Robotham of Swincoe, near Waterfall. Buried at St Bartholomew Churchyard, Blore Ray, Staffordshire.
TWIGG John Ernest. Private 10661, B Coy, 1st Sherwood Foresters [Notts and Derby Regt] killed in action 13 March 1915 age 26. Son of Mary Ann and the late George Twigg of Pitchings Farm, Waterfall. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France
“Their name liveth for evermore”
Listed below are names from a War Grave and Private Memorials
that are at this location.
Sergeant Air Gunner 1817983 William Frederick George EDGE, 166 Sqdn, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve died 3 July 1945 age 20. Son of William and Murial Elizabeth Edge of Winkhill near Waterfall. Buried in St James and St Bartholomew churchyard, Waterfall, Staffordshire
Sergeant, 944380, Thomas Albert HALL, 49th Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, missing 22 June 1944 age 23. Son of James and Minnie Hall of Waterfall. Buried at Woensel General Cemetery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Flying Officer 164397 Maurice AUSTIN, Glider Pilot killed in action 24 March 1945. Son of Thomas Walter and Ida Alice Austin of Waterhouses near Waterfall. Buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany
Lance Corporal 14779913, Arthur William JONES 2nd Seaforth Highlanders killed in action 10th February 1945 age 18. Son of Arthur and Mary Ellen Jones. Buried at Mook War Cemetery, near Nijmegen, Holland
War memorial, Shenley, Hertfordshire, 29 August 2015.
On 11 March 2017, GOC Hertfordshire held a 9.2 mile walk in and around Borehamwood and Shenley in Hertfordshire. I was due to lead the walk but was unwell and unable to attend, and therefore I couldn't take any photographs on the day. So I'm uploading archive photos from prior tests of the walk as I am unlikely to repeat the event and get a chance to take these photos again. On the day, Martin T led the walk, which was attended by 23 people. You can read the original event report from the final walk, find out more about the Gay Outdoor Club or see my collections.