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Man carves wooden feathers for Ohio soldiersUPDATED 8:26 PM EDT Oct 30, 2013
Graham Webb has a dedicated team across Ohio committed to carving wooden feathers for servicemen and servicewomen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.Video Transcript
A PROJECT.. TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING... A LOCAL MAN... DEDICATING HIS TIME... TO FALLEN HEROES... THERE ARE MORE THAN 250 "FALLEN FEATHERS" IN OHIO... WLWT NEWS 5'S KYLA WOODS INTRODUCES US TO THE MAN... ON A MISSION. C001 (Graham Webb, Fallen Feather Project) ("It truly is a memorial.....by Ohioans, for Ohioans.") WHEN WE ASKED GRAHAM WEBB WHY HE AND HIS DEDICATED TEAM ACROSS OHIO DECIDED TO COMMIT ANYWHERE FROM EIGHTY HOURS TO ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY HOURS CARVING OUT INDIVIDUAL FEATHERS FOR EVERY SINGLE FALLEN SOLDIER FROM OHIO....HIS ANSWER WAS SIMPLE. C001 (Graham Webb, Fallen Feather Project) ("It needs to be done.") EARLIER THIS YEAR, GRAHAM STARTED THE BUCKEYE BASED PROJECT SOMEWHAT UNINTENTIONALLY.. .. AFTER SIMPLY PASSING THE TIME BY DUPLICATING A FEATHER THAT HAD FALLEN INTO A FRIEND'S YARD. AFTER SEEING REACTION FROM FRIENDS OF FALLEN SOLDIERS, HE KNEW THERE WAS A MUCH BIGGER PURPOSE BEHIND HIS PASSION. C001 (Graham Webb, Fallen Feathers Project) ("We're starting off in Ohio, and then once Ohio is complete, I'm going too push it nationally.") WHEN GRAHAM PRESENTED THIS SPECIALLY CRAFTED FEATHER TO ADOLFO OLIVAS, WHO'S SON, ARMY CORPORAL NICHOLAS OLIVAS, WAS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN IN 2012, A RANGE OF EMOTIONS CAME TOGETHER FOR THE PARENT DEDICATED TO CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF HIS SON. C003 (Adolfo Olivas, Father of Soldier) ("So many things came together....I mean, my collection of eagles, my completion of his room....um, the fact that it's a wild animal and he was so much into wildlife, etc. There are just so many connections that I could probably do a ninety minute documentary on what's all involved here.") WHEN GRAHAM FIRST RECEIVED NICHOLAS' FEATHER FROM ANOTHER CARVER, HE IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED TO IT. C002 (Graham Webb, Fallen Feather Project) (it just jumped out at me and said....hi dad, I'm home.") AND NO TWO FEATHERS ARE ALIKE. YET ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC THAT MAKES THIS PARTICULAR TRIBUTE TRULY ONE OF A KIND. C003 (Adolfo Olivas, Father of Soldier) (These little acts of kindness....random acts of kindness, touch so deeply and the touch is felt forever.") KYLA WOODS.....WLWT, NEWS 5. GRAHAM IS LOOKING FOR A PERMANENT LOCATION IN OHIO... TO DISPLAY THE FALLEN FEATHERS MEMORIAL... SO FAR, HE'S HAD OVERWHELMING RESPONSE FOR THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN
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Firebird's music is alternately mystical and comically rambunctious. Stravinsky shimmers for romance and clangs for adventure. But the score has not inspired the dramatic ballets you might expect. From Fokine on, choreographers have not considered what the characters need from one another. Ivan – your average dolt of a Russian folktale hero – grabs at the Firebird for sport. He falls in love with the captive Maiden because she is there – in the monster Kaschei's garden, where he has wandered. She is there because Kaschei has captured her. The plot goes round and round.
The genius of Alexei Ratmansky – American Ballet Theatre's artist in residence, former Bolshoi director – is to turn the lack of dramatic imperative to his advantage. The pathos and delight of his Firebird lies in the fact that this Ivan and Maiden are not destined to fall in love; they decide to.
The ballet begins with Ivan (Marcelo Gomes) seeking romance in Simon Pastukh's gorgeously disturbing forest of twisted metal trees. Why he thinks a post-industrial waste facility will prove a chick magnet is anyone's guess, but it does attract firebirds, including stand-out Natalia Osipova. Gomes latches on to her. She surrenders like a bird in a cat's jaws. She is lively only when pushing against him, cocking her head to get a better look. The pas de deux runs counter to many a ballet seduction, where the woman's limpness is meant to signify her joy.
Ivan next encounters ladies who have spent so long in Kaschei's noxious company that they have become monsters too. A cross between mad Miss Havishams and Dr Seuss's Things, they flop about gawkily, mixing disco moves with other scraps from the dustbin of dance. A single robotic desire drives them – for their insinuating, presumptive king (David Hallberg).
Only Simone Messmer ventures beyond the clump when Gomes beckons. He adapts to the Maiden's awkward attempts at flirtation by mirroring her clumsy steps. His exertions on her behalf work as a love elixir on him.
Ratmansky eschews classical ballet's usual forms of virtuosity – the wowing jumps and turns. Of course he does in a dance that is all about finding your way blindly. In a Firebird full of things to love, this refusal to take the steps for granted may be the most endearing of all.
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PHNOM PENH: Remains believed to be those of three American servicemen killed in Cambodia more than four decades ago during the Vietnam War were repatriated yesterday for identification in the United States.
The remains were recovered by a team of Cambodian officials and members of the US Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) in eastern Kampong Cham province, according to the US embassy.
The team is tasked with searching for missing US personnel in Southeast Asia.
"A few days ago, a joint team of Cambodians and Americans completed their most recent mission and recovered the possible remains of Americans missing in Cambodia," William Todd, US Ambassador to Cambodia, said at a solemn repatriation ceremony at Phnom Penh airport.
"Today, we honour colleagues who died far from home and whom we never knew," he said, adding he hoped their return "will ease the pain" of the fallen's families. The remains, carried in three coffins draped in US flags, were flown on an American military plane bound for JPAC's Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii.
Further details on how the US military servicemen were killed were not immediately available.
Ninety American soldiers were originally missing in Cambodia from the Vietnam War, according to the US embassy, which said 37 individuals had been recovered and identified since the two countries began cooperating in the search in 1992, while 53 remain missing. AFP


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