Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Berry Berenson
From: Daniel Bowdoin <danlb@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:57:27 -0700
References: <20010913131821.20395.qmail@web20405.mail.yahoo.com>

B. D. Colen wrote

>Right, Daniel, we obviously are not - the same person.
>I would not have posted the cover in the first place -
>who, frankly, gives a damn that one of the undoubtedly
>10s of thousands of victims of this horror once had a
>Life Mag cover? I'd be much more interested in knowing
>something about any of the unknown folks who, it
>seems, thwarted the terrorists attempt to fly a fourth
>plane into a target in Washington, D.C. 
>
>I don't think that, if someone is, quite frankly,
>silly enough to worry about Ms B.'s photo credits,
>they should consider it rude, heartless, etc., for me
>or anyone else to comment on that photography.
>
>I stated quite clearly that the death of Ms. Berenson
>was a tragedy, just as the death of a janitor at one
>of the Wall Street megafirms with offices in the WTC
>was a tragedy. Give it a rest, please.

Mr. Colen . . .

Since nothing you say above has anything to do either with the content,
the tone, or the purpose of my brief original posting to the list and my
even briefer response to you, I'm certainly glad to give it a rest.
Having had the opportunity in the meantime to browse through the thirty
or or so postings you've made in the intervening hours, I understand
clearly that I'm not by temperament nearly as vocal as you, certainly not
as wise, and very certainly not as comfortable as you seem to be while
navigating closely to either side of the border that separates bluntness
and loutishness. I shall certainly take your admonition to heart and
undertake not to be so silly in the future.

Cordially

Daniel Bowdoin

In reply to: Message from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen2001@yahoo.ca> (Re: [Leica] Berry Berenson)