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临时的，插进一篇来



我有一种感觉，似乎应该纪念一下这个人，以免这个印象就渐渐在我记忆里面淡化了。

Dickey Chapelle，生于似乎1919年（似乎不确切，有晓得的劳驾告诉我一声），死与1965年11月4日。这幅照片摄于越南，图中她是美海军陆战队的随军摄影记者，拿着Leica A4相机。在1965年11月4日，岘港。Chapelle在随行海军陆战队一侦察分队的时候，触发地雷。她的气管当即就遭穿透，不时即在后送的直升机上死去。

Dickey Chapelle以极优异成绩高中毕业之后，在MIT学习空气动力学，是当时MIT为数不多的女学生之一。如果不是因为大萧条的缘故而中断学业，恐怕最后不会有摄影记者Dickey Chapelle而是工程师Dickey Chapelle了。作为美国最早的前线女新闻摄影记者，她历经过关岛战役，冲绳战役，1956年的匈牙利，1960年的阿尔及利亚，古巴独立战争，老挝独立战争，以及最后，越南战争。

她的战地摄影尽量地尊重血腥的战地场面，因此在她成名之前曾被以“too Dirty”为理由而退稿。但她却从来不是一个反战主义者，按照她自己的话，她感到在战场上面，每一个人不仅仅是为能够回家而作战，同时也是为并肩的战友与自己的生存而作战。

Oh, she was high up there in the air,
Caught still by a soldier''s stare.
Whenever it was men amongst men down upon the land.
And she followed those mother''s sons;
She felt the thunder of their guns.
From a pearl''s eye view, just a camera in her hand.
She was born Georgette but the name didn''t suit her well.
So, she blew out of Wisconsin as Dickey Chapelle.

Oh, she flew with a pilot''s pride,
The first witness to either side.
She carried relief to the lost ones between the bombs.
And we saw it all through her lens,
Well, she knew she''d go back again
When the call rang out once more from Vietnam.
She''s been through this before, she''ll tell ya war is hell
Her pearl ear-rings caught the light on Dickey Chapelle.

Oh, that''s the way it was,
She was the only one to tell,
In 1962,
She blew the whistle loud and clear.
An'' now we trace her wings,
In her footsteps without fear,
To the front lines where she fell.
Where she lies still,
But she''s still there.

It was 1965,
Over Chu Lai in a free fall dive,
In a dawn patrol to cover the dead zone ground.
She tiptoed through the land mines,
All along the enemy lines,
But she never saw the one that took her down.
Now she captured the bloody pearls of war so well,
That war was bound to steal the end of Dickey Chapelle.

Nanci Griffith作Pearl''s Eye View (The Life Of Dickey Chapelle)。