Common Virtue
From JRO <ogl...@mail.fullnet.net-remove>
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· 22 Aug 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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...Feb. 23, 1945. A simple press photographer named Joe Rosenthal inadvertantly
accomplished something that no one had even imagined possible. Intending to take
nothing more than a photograph, by act of fate he captured the soul of a nation...
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For Joe, who sent my Grandfather one of the original three copies. And for everyone
that the words Semper Fidelis still carry some meaning.
QUIZ: Who knows what common virtue is?
Jonathon R. Oglesbee
oglesbee@
mail.fullnet.net
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