TIME Person of the Year Cover Photo

[AZLibertarian]

Great story. Finally, TIME recognizes the contributions of the individual soldier. Well Done, TIME.

However, someone please tell me that the cover photo, is not of real soldiers, and that its some nitwit model who HAS HIS FINGER ON THE TRIGGER WHEN HE'S GOT NOTHING TO SHOOT AT! :banghead:

http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2003/story.html

 

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

WooHoo....

That tells you something.

I thought they were going to put Arafat or Hussein. I thought Ghadafi was a shoo in.

That they chose American Soldiers should tell reams.

 

[El Tejon]

WOW! They beat out Howard Dean!

7.62 nailed it. The East Coast media senses disaster for their cause. Wow, still can't believe they did that. What an admission.

 

[10-Ring]

God Bless'em! Our fighting men & women are just making us all proud! And to see such recognition from TIME does speak volumes.

 

[ChickenHawk]

Three guys from the 1st Armored Division "Tomb Raiders"

Don't pick on them. The dummy taking the photo probably choreographed the entire pose.

Cheers,
ChickenHawk

 

[P95Carry]

Infinitely more deserving than many from other years. Pity about the trigger finger but Chicken could well be right on his assessment.

 

[Bob F.]

Maybe the "Tomb Raiders" just weren't sure the photog was really a "friendly"?!?! They have been decoyed occassionally, and who really knows about "TIME" anyway?!?!?




The devil made me do it.


Bottom line: Congrats and gratitiude to the TROOPS, each and every one of 'em!!

 

[Gunner45]

Very Cool.

They couldn't have made a better choice this year.

Gunner45

 

[c_yeager]

Ive noticed a LOT of soldiers dont seem to have a concept of the "finger off the trigger" rule. From veterans and active duty people you get a lot who have been trained with it and a lot that havent.

Besides folks, its a PHOTGRAPH. The guy looks "tougher" with his finger in the guard like that. its not like he is locked and loaded in a combat zone here. Heck, i wouldnt be at all suprised if he was holding a "parade" dummy rifle in the first place.

 

[DougCxx]

- It's real soldiers. Who composed the photo they do not say.
Today (December 22) the St-Louis Post Dispatch has a story on the fellow front and center, as he is from Missouri. Sgt. Ronald Buxton is his name, based in Germany but originally from the Lake Ozark area. The other two are Sgt Marquette Whiteside of Pine Bluff Arkansas, and Spc. Billie Grimes of Lebanon, Indiana.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...Headline=Missourian+is+featured+on+Time+cover
~

 

[Mark Tyson]

Unfortunately firearms safety training isn't what it should be in the modern military. There's so much emphasis on other technical skills that it just gets crowded out. That's why a "well regulated militia" is important to impart these skills in people before they get to the regular military.

While I like Time's choice I have to say I think that the whole person of the year thing has become nothing more than a PC popularity contest. Otherwise UBL would have been man of the year in 2001, rather than Guliani.

 

[dinosaur]

Fox News had on someone from Time this a.m. She said the young lady in the middle was the medic who treated their correspondent (Weiskopf?) when he lost his hand tossing the grenade out of the Humvee. The photographer was also in the Humvee at the time.

 

[RepublicanMan]

Very likely a "staged" photograph. The media is famous for doing such things....witness the flag raising at Iwo Jima in WW-2.
Yes the event occured but the photographer had them re-stage it multiple times until he got the photo he wanted.

Doesn't take anything away from the true meaning however.
God Bless our troops, keep up the good work!!!

 

[JohnBT]

If I was in a room with a photographer/reporter from Time I'd have my finger on the trigger, too.

John

 

[bvmjethead]

Uh, the one with HER finger on the trigger is a SHE.

NOT a he.

 

[AJ Dual]

Do I like who was chosen as "Man of the year"?

Absolutely.

Do I, for one second, think that this is borne out of genuine pride or patriotism, and not finger-in-the-wind pandering to Time's perception of Joe-sixpack, in a cynical move to maintain circulation?

Nope.

 

[Checkman]

Republicanman-

Joe Rosenthal's famous flag raising on Mt. Suribachi (Iwo Jima) was not posed. The first flag that went up was too small and couldn't be seen by the observers out on the ships. So the order went out to put up a bigger one. That's the flag rasing picture that Rosenthal took. I saw an interview with Rosenthal in which he addresses this myth. Actually he was sort of miffed because he had missed the first flag going up. He took the photo anyway as a "just because". He didn't even know what it would look like. The film was shipped to a lab. It was several weeks later that everyone realized what they had in the very dramatic and totally honest photo. There is also newsreel footage of the second flag going up and in that footage you see the image for a second and then it's gone. It wasn't staged it was simply one of those fluke photos that professional photographers dream about. Incidentally there was still fighting going on throughout that area when the second flag went up. The guy who took the photo of the first flag raising (the samll flag) was killed a few days later. Sorry to be so long winded, but many years ago in college I "enlightened" one of my professors when she passed on the myth. She did some research and to this day will tell her students the truth about the flag raising.