Thanks very much folks ... you've been a big help ... glad we were able to communicate. Especially with those of you who have since passed on and "moved to a low, green tent" (to use a Civil War expression).

For current photos taken by computer people with digital cameras . . . this has become easy. The photo file is electronic and any picture can be sent to me as an email attachment. For a larger number of these its best to send them on a CD or on a USB key memory (which I will return to you). For historical 8X10 b&w prints, you will need to scan these to an electronic file or make duplicates at Walgreen, Wal-Mart, etc. Everything has about become electronic and the darkroom has all but faded from the picture. There are negative scanning devices for folks like Ralph Hanna (with will-power above and beyond) to make positive electronic copies of their old negatives. Same difficult procedure for prints. And all the more frustrating as we get older and electronic programs explain less --- which usually result in the reader thinking "Say What?"

DO NOT and I mean DO NOT attempt to send me 1) xerox copies of photos or 2) your printer's copies (although some of the circa 2008+ printers are very good). The older printers will not work. Jack Bristol and Col. Fairlamb wasted lots of well intentioned effort this way.

Random Photo Advice: Walgreen now has some great equipment . . . use it, if one is near you. The Wal-Mart 8x10 copying system is a chemical system (and expensive) . . . its snapshot copies, however, are made digitally --- ergo the latter are cheap but their DPI (dots per inch) create a random interference pattern with scanners. These snapshot copies are good buys for everyday distribution but of no use to this web page or for electronic conversion. One more thing on older snapshots, the ones printed on grain-surface paper, thats a real problem for a scanner because of the random light reflectivity. On those, its best to find the old negatives if you can. And if whatever you're looking at is out of focus . . . pass it up. All scanners and all monitors degrade the image, if thats bad to begin with then the results aren't of much use. Sometimes an image is so important that it must be used regardless of condition, but generally not. Tain't easy . . . and good luck.

My Country Tis of Thee

First performed in public on July 4, 1831, Samuel Francis Smith wrote the lyrics to this melody in Muzio Clementi's Symphony No. 3. At the time, he had no knowledge of the same melody's use for the British national anthem, "God Save the King." It is used here in a ragtime version to honor our 482nd WWII veterans, who liked nothing more than to lightly irritate (rag) the British while serving in the European theater.

from The Golden Child (1986)

"He believes in nothing . . . yet still he does what is right."

482nd FIS Webmaster: George C. Willick
514 East St., Madison, IN 47250

The decade long, daily research and effort involved in
this website is dedicated to my younger first cousin:
SMSgt Garry Reed Fuller, Vietnam, USAF
Sept 13, 1941 - Dec 29, 1988
Arlington National Cemetery

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