November 24, 2002
Photo:
Cut the Line
Thomas Hart Benton #23
Oil on board, 1944
Gift of Abbott Laboratories
88-159-BO
Last episode in the birth of an LST--the launching. While the audience leans forward with the breathless expectation of racetrack fans lining the rail to shout "They're Off!" the foreman of the crew holds his hat high. Seconds later the hat came down, the crowd roared, the lines were cut and a new ship had joined Uncle Sam's landing craft armada.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes....Benjamin Disraeli.
song playing...Air that I Breathe