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Long Thoughts

A marine standing amongst the dead
Description: Drawing, Charcoal on Paper; by Kerr Eby; 1944; Framed Dimensions 31H X 39W
Accession #: 88-159-DO as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories
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The artist often wondered what the infantryman thought as he looked over his handiwork. This Marine searched for water for his friends on the still-smoking beach. The fight was still going on farther down the island.                        

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