Stop the insanity! Television news organizations constantly use stock footage when they air a story about some topics. You know what I mean. I’ll mention a topic and you tell me the footage you always see whenever there’s news about that topic. Ready? Smoking. You can see it can’t you? A closeup of someone’s mouth puffing a cigarette and exhaling smoke. Every time there’s a story about tobacco or the health problems associated with smoking, you’ll see someone’s mouth fill your TV screen. Different stories have different people, but it’s the same camera shot.
Shadow Box
I designed and constructed a shadow box to display my late father’s medals and wings from his service in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
Actual medals were generally not issued during the war, and I doubt my father ever received them after the war. I applied for replacement medals from the National Archives and Records Administration through their eVetRecs program. Since a majority of veteran records from that time were lost in a fire, I had to provide his discharge papers and wait about six months.