Never, never, never give up -

"God Save the Queen"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... if you're going through hell, keep going ..."
- Sir Winston Churchill

If not today, tomorrow -

"June 6, 1944"

digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... rangers, lead the way ..."
- Col. Francis W. Dawson

There is no good war -

"Daylight Precision Bombing"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask,
'Mother, what was war?' ..."
- Eve Merriam

Now you see it, now you don't -

"Project Rainbow"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... there is no such thing as a failed experiment,
only experiments with unexpected outcomes ..."
- Richard Buckminster Fuller

A wing and a prayer -

"Measuring Causality"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... air power may either end war or end civilization .."
- Winston Churchill

Basic training -

"For the War Effort"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... I'm as patriotic as can be - and ration points won't worry me ..."
- U.S. Government WWII Poster

The Underdogs -

"Keep Calm and Carry On"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"...I never worry about action, only inaction ..."
- Winston Churchill

Illustration Friday: Canned -

"Canned"
digital collage by Mick Mather

This week's theme at Illustration Friday, canned, sent me back a long way in my thinking. All the way back to the days of WWII when the British were hanging on by a thread, well before the United States got involved. Patrolling the North Atlantic to thwart the German U-Boat attacks on all manner of shipping was, I'm certain, a cold, daunting, grueling and lonely task. Heroes are rarely the sort one sees in the movies or television dramas; my hat is off to all who served and, do remember: "they also serve who only stand and wait."

Illustration Friday: Forgotten -

"Edge of Darkness"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Illustration Friday offers the word forgotten as this week's theme. The 1943 film starring Errol Flynn as a hero of the WWII resistance in Norway aside, along with a pair of American and British soap operas, what I'm thinking about here are issues of reflection, recollection and being off far from home. Standing, for example, in an empty field, studying the horizon, watching the darkness wash quietly over you. Then turning to the setting sun as a sliver of sky turns every shade of blue, finally indigo, supposing the question, "can you really never go home again?"