BLOGABOUTJAPAN...is a collection of many of my photos taken from 1961 through 1963 while I was stationed in Japan at Naval Air Station Atsugi with VQ-1. Since beginning this blog, I have invited photographers and artists to exhibit their works here. My deepest appreciation and thanks to those whose work appears in this blog.
THANKS TO THE GUEST PHOTOGRAPHERS WHOSE PHOTOS ADD MUCH EXCELLENCE TO THIS ONLINE JOURNAL...
THANKS TO THE PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO HAVE MADE THIS JOURNAL POSSIBLE
Thanks to the photographers who have been kind and understanding; thanks for permitting your photos to be exhibited for the enjoyment of all who view this journal about Japan.
HISTORICAL NOTES ABOUT ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO PHOTO IN SLIDESHOW BELOW Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Imperial Japanese Navy Portrait photograph, taken during the early 1940s, when he was Commander in Chief, Combined Fleet. Original photograph was in the files of Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. ABOUT THE PHOTO OF THE ARTIFACTS Display relating to P-38 aircraft shoot-down of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the Pearl Harbor attack. The display includes a remnant of Admiral Yamamoto's airplane. For more information about war in the Pacific, go to: The National Museum of the Pacific War. It is the only institution in the continental United States dedicated exclusively to telling the story of the Pacific Theater battles of World War II. See their website: http://www.nimitz-museum.org/index.htm .
THE SLIDESHOWS ARE OPTIONS FOR BLOGGER AUTHORS AND ARE FURNISHED VIA PICASA. THE SLIDESHOWS ON MY BLOG HAVE BEEN SELECTED AT RANDOM THROUGH POSTING A SUBJECT. FOR EXAMPLE: JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINTS, KINTAI BRIDGE, TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, WATERCOLORS, ETC. TO IDENTIFY THE SOURCE AND CREATOR OF A SLIDE SHOW, ARROWS FOR LEFT AND RIGHT AND STOP ARE PROVIDED BENEATH THE SLIDESHOWS. CLICK ON AN IMAGE AND FIND OUT MORE. PLEASE RETURN TO THIS BLOG IF YOU SHOULD HAPPEN TO BE DETOURED BY A SLIDESHOW. BETTER YET, CHECK OUT MY BLOG, BLOGABOUTJAPAN, AND THEN GO FOR THE SLIDE SHOWS.
My dad's dad, my grandfather, was nine years old when President Lincoln died from an assassin's bullet. Most people think I am speaking of my GREAT GRANDFATHER. NO, I am referring to my dad's father, my paternal Grandfather, Robert Levi Huffstutter, born in 1856. What does this information have to do with my profile? It might help the reader understand that I have a sense of being much older than I am in that only one generation seperates me from President Lincoln. This causes me to respond differently to society and many current events. In many respects, this is to my benefit, in other respects it dates my mindset. Perhaps this is the reason I value the moral standards and idealogies of older Americans, the men who were the soldiers and sailors I saw when I was a small boy,the men and women who fought a war for freedom without any doubts posted by a media with a questionable lack of national unity and purpose.