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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 Aug 1999.
Re: Common Virtue

Re: Common Virtue

Lennert Stock <l...@gate99.nl> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 01:28:17 -0500, "JRO"
<ogl...@mail.fullnet.net-remove> wrote:
>
> >...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...
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >[ascii picture]
>
> (wow :))
>
> >QUIZ: Who knows what common virtue is?
>
> Ahh.. Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue, not?
> IMO, there's nothing valorous, nor fateful or virtuous
> about faking a snapshot of a historic event and getting
> a Pulitzer for it though.. but great pose, and great
> ascii picture ;)

Im familiar with the history of the picture and it does not diminish nor
cloud the message it conveys which is imbedded in the hearts of
millions. And, yes, it is a great ascii pic :)

Prudence

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Subject: Re: Common Virtue
Date: 1999/08/22
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