November 4, 2002
Photo: Bourne Field, St. Thomas
Albert K. Murray #73
Oil on canvas, 1943
19 3/4h" x 23 3/4w"
88-195-BX
From a country road well up the green slopes rising from the flying field, the shore panorama of the marine side of the Navy Operating Base is visible. A flight of OS2N's circles the field on return from a mission. From the sea comes a destroyer and patrol craft and in the distance can be seen St. Croix.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle....George William Curtis.
song playing....Blue on Blue