![]() Washington DC – another city rich in history – is a mere thirty miles away. Living in Baltimore, we are bombarded with reminders of the War of 1812. I’m a history buff, so I’ve always been attracted to history-centered events. wear Ernie Pyle would have used during WWII? Where did this footlocker in my living room full of army jackets, trousers, leggings and shirts canteens, mess kits and helmets come from? Why is there a pup tent on my ebay watch list? What was I doing last August, trying to focus an antique black & white film camera while bouncing across Lake Erie in a duck boat? And when did I go from being a wild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan news site, to a bivouacking, backpacking, beach-storming member of the 167th Signal Photographic Company? How, in one year, did we go from wearing cozy trench coats and stylish berets, to donning the kind of G.I. ![]() Now we are considering the sanity of spending a couple of icy nights in a canvas army tent, to cover yet another wintry World War II event in wind-swept Pennsylvania. One year ago today, my colleague Camilla Hsiung and I were making sensible plans to cover a Battle of the Bulge reenactment at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA. Photo taken with a vintage Argus A3 camera. US infantry reenactors prepare for an assault on German forces at D-Day Conneaut. ![]()
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