Boston Globe: Making it personal

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/04/28/making_it_personal/

THE PHOTOGRAPH shows a man sitting hunched on the lawn near the Capitol, his head bowed. Sitting beside him is a woman.

The picture, in "The New Soldier," a book of photographs and essays about the April 1971 antiwar protest in Washington, is of John Kerry.

The woman comforting him is Julia Thorne, Kerry's first wife. The photograph was taken just minutes after veterans tossed their war decorations over a wood-and-wire fence erected to keep protesters off the Capitol steps.

Kerry was overcome with emotion at the time. Both David Thorne, Julia's brother and one of Kerry's best friends, and George Butler, the documentary filmmaker who took the picture, recall him being in tears. He had come to Washington to try to wake America up about the Vietnam War, and he had returned ribbons commemorating war heroism he was proud of to make a statement.

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Like your sig line; that book scared the bejeesus out of me when I read it in school, now it's chillingly real. Glad Orwell isn't around to see this.

Wouldn't that slam the repubs and give Kerry some help here??? Sounds like a powerful photo...

:-)