#vVa

[mrkaguya]

[khaleesiofalicante]

I love love love making movie posters and trailers. The amount of thought that goes into these little things has always been so fascinating to me 🖤

[clanlasombrasp]

One thing Erzebeth Basarab loved, even more than torture enemies, was a good blood bath...

In that we had similar tastes for about 300 years or so!

[red-hot-moon]

Incredible version of Johnny Bye-Bye performed during the Concert for the Vietnam Veteran in L.A. in 1981, a benefit concert for the VVA (Vietnam Veterans Association) which Bruce helped set up himself. The entire concert is on Youtube.

“Strong”. . . barely describes Springsteen’s commitment to VVA and the men and women who served in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. That’s because in 1981, three short years after the organization was founded, when VVA was at a financial crisis point and about to go under, Bruce Springsteen stepped in and saved the organization.

“In those early years it was always hand to mouth,” said John Terzano, who ran VVA’s Washington, D.C., office in the early 1980s. “Figuring out how to pay our bills was a constant problem. We had to go months without paying the rent, and had numerous conversations about shutting down. We were in extra dire straits.”

“We were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt,” Muller said. “I’m in my [New York] office and I’m preparing to close down the organization [and] I get a call.” On the line: Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen’s manager. Landau told Muller that Springsteen “was interested in Vietnam vets and you seem like the guy” to talk to. He invited Muller to see Springsteen perform the next night, July 3, 1981, at the Brendan Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey. After the show—he was blown away—Muller and Springsteen met and talked.

The upshot: Springsteen gave a benefit concert the next month in Los Angeles. That concert, on August 20, 1981, at the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena, sold out. Afterward, Bruce Springsteen presented VVA a check for $100,000, “a staggering sum of money,” as Muller put it.

The money “gave us a new breath of life. We were saved,” Terzano said. “It didn’t pay all of our bills, but gave us the shot and hope we needed. The only reason we survived is because Bruce came around in 1981.” What’s more, Springsteen’s generosity “opened the door, and Pat Benatar and Charlie Daniels” gave VVA benefit concerts the following month.

“It was our first foray into the musical arena,” Terzano said. “When you get a celebrity involved it opens so many doors, especially educating people and reaching more people. Plus, Bruce became a very close personal friend of Bobby and helped us out over the years. He gave us well over a hundred thousand dollars. It was an organization saver.”

If “it wasn’t for Bruce coming forward,” Muller said, “there would not have been a coherent, national movement on behalf of Vietnam vets.” VVA “became the national group, the only national group, with a [congressional] charter.”

Bruce Springsteen came out on the Memorial Sports Arena stage on August 20 and walked up to the microphone. “Tonight we’re here for the men and the women who fought in the Vietnam War,” he said—a war that “turned this whole country into a dark street. Like at night when you just want to get home and out of the corner of your eye you see somebody gettin’ hurt and you keep walking on because it don’t have nothing to do with you. Unless we’re able to walk down those dark alleys and look into the eyes of the men and the women that are down there and the things that happened, we’re never going to be able to get home.

“There’s a lot of guys here tonight [he had invited a group of disabled Vietnam veterans] that had to live it and live it every day. And there’s a lot of guys that made it home to America and died and didn’t make it down here tonight.” He then introduced Bobby Muller, who steered his wheelchair onto the stage.

“It’s a great night for Vietnam veterans,” Muller said. “Very simply, there was a lot of controversy and there was a lot of pain surrounding the tragedy of Vietnam. And because of that a lot of people have tried to forget it and pretend that it never happened.

“That doesn’t do much for the families of the 55,000 Americans that were killed in Vietnam. It doesn’t do much for the 300,000 that were wounded fighting that war. But tonight is the first step in ending the silence that has surrounded Vietnam.”

Muller then spoke of veterans’ advocates who “have worked so hard for these years all over the country” on behalf of Vietnam veterans. He finished with these words:

“It’s a little bit ironic, after the years that we’ve been trying, when the businesses haven’t come behind us and the political leaders have failed to rally behind us and [when] you remember the divisions within our own generation about the war, that it ultimately turns out to be the very symbol of our generation—rock and roll—that brings us together.

“And it is rock and roll that is going to provide the healing process that everybody needs. So let’s not talk about it, let’s get down to it, let’s rock and roll.”

The audience cheered loudly, and Springsteen and his E Street Band launched into Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Who’ll Stop the Rain.” The reviewer for Rolling Stone magazine said Springsteen and company “transformed” that song “into a majestic call to arms” on behalf of Vietnam veterans.

It “set the tone for the night,” Terzano said. “It was very haunting and very emotional.” It also sounded the note that saved Vietnam Veterans of America.

[source]



[frenchcarssince1946]

1979 Alpine VVA Concept

My tumblr-blogs: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/germancarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/frenchcarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/englishcarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/italiancarssince1946

[iwan-fadila]

Satu Keunggulan NMax S, Nggak Ada di Skutik Merek Lain

motogokil.com – Assalamu’alaikum wa rochmatullohi wa barokatuh, semoga kita semua selamat di perjalanan sampai ke tujuan. Karena NMax versi S adalah versi turunan dari Nmax yang telah lahir di tahun 2015, maka ia mewarisi seluruh keunggulan Nmax versi pertamanya. Dan memang pada kenyataannya keunggulan tersebut tidak tergantikan, wajar kalau masih terus disematkan pada generasi nmax salanjutnya…

[ajkiel89]

VVA pick up

[touteytout]

weird animals

also versions with alternate background:

[clanlasombrasp]

US...

the children of darkness

[nicecurves]

[khaleesiofalicante]

VVA mood board? 🥺 i am melancholic today

[clanlasombrasp]

The way a gentleman had their limbs amputed... those were nice days!

[youare-number6]

Futuristic Ekranoplan Ground Effect Flying Craft - Pt 3

[slappycat]

werewoofs....I love you

[is-johnny-jhonny-a-spectral-yet]

day 2982

no :(

[verasvalehq]

VERASVALEHQ is a multifandom discord group set in the fictional town of VERA’S VALE. the world exists in the work-in-progress novel of an unnamed Author; an omniscient being who, when confronted with writers block, likes to enforce the odd plot twist to their story. muses live a ‘fake life’ of sorts, where they all believe to have lived here their entire lives — however, they are merely foggy memories of the Author’s favorite characters, names and personalities removed from their original canon, most of which are blissfully unaware of the Author’s existence at all.. we’re only two muns away from opening so it’s the best time to check us out before plotting begins !