Interwar Postcard

The March Down 4th, by and © dogwelder.

The union makes us strong. United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) protest against brutal cuts in the state’s education budget.

The Native Hue of Resolution, by and © Michael Zara.

Reading about Gaza and thinking about Henry Shoskes’s book about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, No Traveler Returns.

I shot this on the day that Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for President. The title is from Laurence Binyon’s poem, “The Fourth of August,” which conceived the First World War in the noblest of terms:

Now in thy splendour go before us.
Spirit of England, ardent-eyed,
Enkindle this dear earth that bore us
In the hour of peril purified.

The cares we hugged drop out of vision,
Our hearts with deeper thought dilate,
We step from days of sour division
Into the grandeur of our fate.

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