November 8, 2002
Photo: Any "Boat" in an Emergency
David Stone Martin #8
Oil on canvas, circa 1943
Gift of Abbott Laboratories
88-159-II
Though not as easily handled as boats, rubber life rafts serve admirably to transport wounded from beach to ship where the shore is too shallow for craft with deeper draught. This one is used in maneuvers at Camp Lejeune.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity....General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
song playing....Desperado