Me as World War One ambulance driver, Justice, Illinois (about twenty miles southwest of Chicago). The printed date shows MAY 1968, but the original snapshot was more likely taken in 1966 or 1967.
WWI was very much in the Zeitgeist: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, the one featuring Snoopy as flying ace vs. the Red Baron, premiered on October 27, 1966. (Yes, there is a first time for everything!)
In any case, I was in good company. Among actual Great War ambulance drivers and attendants were writers, artists and musicians of all kinds. For example: Erwin Blumenfeld, René Clair; Jean Cocteau; Malcom Cowley; e.e. cummings; Kati Nino Dadeshkeliani; John Dos Passos; Dorothy Canfied Fisher; Dashiell Hammett; Ernest Hemingway; Robert Hillyer; Sidney Howard; John Howard Lawson; Arhibald MacLeish; Somerset Maugham; Maurice Ravel; Albert Roussel; Robert W. Service; Olaf Stapledon; Gertrude Stein and Hugh Walpole. Good way to participate in the action without full commitment to nationalism and war -- especially if you're only about six years old.
Today's Rune: Joy.
9 comments:
You look too cute. :p
Which is one of the reasons I have such great respect for Whitman and his actions during our last civil war.
I knew the Germans were taking them young but this is ridiculous. ;)
Hemingway is the most famous WW ambulence drive I know of.
Ah yes, life in the trenches... I was fortunate enough to spend WWI in Argentina: sidewalk cafes and cantinas, Pernod and Absinthe, the heady mix of rough cattlemen and cantina girls with the crumbling vestiges of European gentility....
Yeah.
Yeah, did you run into Hemingway?
Waaaay cooool! You already know how much I like those childhood pics. I wonder how many GI-Joes are sold today; whether they're as popular as they used to be. Also, that's quite an empressive list of writers.
Erik, u are too cute! Hmmm, I thought most artists were waitress, or was that actors?
Still it had the illusion, not wise person the horrors of the war! All age a great diversion! One lists in such a way and of authors! Good weekend! Beijus,
Very cool (& what a cutie pie!)
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