The following is a letter from Col. James R. Fullwood, USMC – Commanding Officer of Wounded Warrior Battalion-West Below I provided a rough outline of my memories of our meeting and then establishing the f-Stop program at the battalion. My introduction to you was through Jennifer Brusstar of the Tug McGraw Foundation. In 2011 or […]
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Written by Terence Ford When SgtMaj Mark O’Loughlin invited me to his retirement ceremony at the Wounded Warrior Battalion West ‘onboard’ Camp Pendleton I had no idea what I would be getting involved in! When I first meet SgtMaj months earlier, I’d been teaching the fundamentals of digital photography to OIF/OEF trauma injured veterans for
Written by Terence Ford Chicago. O’Hare Airport. It was 1972, maybe 1973. I’d left the States, I think, in January 1969, on the day Nixon was inaugurated. All my American clothes had more or less disintegrated in Nepal during the monsoons. I was wearing those funny Indian pants that look like pajamas and a safari
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“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” -Aeschylus The Marine was in his mid-twenties when he entered my photo lab at the Wounded Warrior Battalion West onboard Marine Corps Base Camp
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