Photos: The Road Home (Special By-Request Edition: White Sands Missle Range, White Sands, NM)

[thehefner]

By special request of heykidzcomix (sorry it took me ten months to finally get to these!):










































I wish I'd taken photos of the artwork hanging in the gallery at White Sands. They had paintings of the Bataan Death March, done by an actual Bataan survivor. The horror at seeing these images depicted was cut by distaste at the classically-stereotypical depiction of the Japanese: all bucktoothed sneers and jaundiced skin.

The combination left me unsettled in more ways than the artist intended. But those intentions were in there too, which only added to the problem.

Comments

[superfan1.livejournal.com]

Great photos! I lol at the darth vader image and the guy riding the rocket while holding a rope. :)

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

*headtilt at the "Flying Saucer"*

What is the purpose of that thing?

[frustratedpilot]

When NASA drops probes on planets with atmospheres (such as Mars), they stick them in Aeroshells so they can survive re-entry.

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

:D

*has +5 learnings*