A Navy Tour

Photos shown here are selected examples for a project called "Navy Tour." These frozen bits of time played before my camera from 1966 to 1970 when I served as a Navy photographer. An on-going project to decorate California Veterans Homes unexpectedly brings memories to light. Below, I've organized images into location-based galleries that follow my Navy travels. Over the years, these old negatives have called to me like whispering ghosts from closed boxes and dark places where they've languished for 40 years. It’s as if my old photographs have something they wish to say. I say, let them speak.

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Martin Luther King had intended to lead the Poor People's Campaign and march on Washington but is murdered just before the march. In Dr. King's stead, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, King's longtime friend and SCLC's vice president, leads and organizes the event . The speeches and music never stop while the campaign workers build a shanty town on the Washington Mall. I visit often and photographed this performance one hot summer day. Who is singing, I don't know.

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