November 10, 2002
Photo:
Battlefield Samaritans
Irwin Hoffman #12
Oil on canvas, circa 1943
Gift of Abbott Laboratories
88-159-GH
While one Navy hospital corpsman bandages the wounded arm of a "casualty" another holds a lighted cigarette to his mouth during maneuvers at Camp Lejeune.
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.... Lise Hand.
song playing....He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother