Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/War Veteran

War Veteran

 

A US Veteran from WWI holds the flag which covered his son's casket.

I saw this picture just now, and it struck a cord with me. The photo is credited as a U.S. Census Bureau image uploaded by User:Petaholmes and currently appearing in the article Veterans Day.

Note this page only appeared today. Raven4x4x 03:47, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Nominate and support. - TomStar81 00:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Support --Rogerd 03:53, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Support 100%.-Dakota ^{t e} 09:29, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. Far too small - it's barely larger than the thumbnail. —Cryptic (talk) 11:35, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. JDH Owens ^{talk | Esperanza} 20:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• {{Support}}, astonishing. Halibutt 02:56, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Halibutt, I know you hate us doing this, but I had to put nowiki tags around your thing otherwise it doesn't show. Enochlau 05:15, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Waaaay too small!!!! Enochlau 05:15, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • and hence oppose. Enochlau 07:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. Far too small. —DO'Иeil 10:39, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. Image is too small for FP, and frankly, I have trouble supporting a image when we dont know for sure what war he is a veteran of. -Lanoitarus 19:16, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • We do know, if the metadata on the image page is correct:

    Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He is holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who was killed in the Korean War. —Cryptic (talk) 21:07, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    • Ah, I didnt see that the first time, and the original nomination said the war was unknown. My mistake. I rescind that part of my objection, however i still object based on image size. - Lanoitarus 22:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Good picture, even if small. Borisblue 07:58, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Very poignant; would be preferable if the image was bigger, though. SoLando (Talk) 10:25, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Support: so striking and poignant, it doesn't matter that it is small. CDThieme 00:29, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am aware that some of you wish to have an enlarged version of this picture, so I have been searching for one for the past few days; however, as the fall finals aproach more and more of my time has been spent studying so that I can aviod another semester of academic probation. I, too, would like to see a larger version of the picture, but right now I can't spare the hours needed to roam the web in search of a bigger photo. TomStar81 00:35, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose - Absurdly small.--Deglr6328 03:43, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • I had some free time today, and went looking for a larger version of the picture. I stumbled across this site, which has the picture credited as a USAF photo by Mickey Sanborn taken in 1982, but I can't find a hi-res version. Did we even have high resolution images in 1982? TomStar81 20:09, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • With the Thanksgiving weekend break upon us I took the time to do a really thourgh search fo a larger version of this picture; however, having spent most of today looking I can now say with some certinty that this is most likely as large as it is going to get. Sorry. TomStar81 06:24, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]