Peter Finnegan

So, I would sign out of the photo lab and I would go out with an engineer company, and we'd go around and we'd take pictures of the guys doing their jobs. And we'd get their name and their hometown and their hometown paper. Whether it would be the 'Boscobel Dial,' the 'Fennimore Times,' or the 'Prairie du Chien Foghorn,' whatever it was, you know. Different ones, in, you know, across the United States, and you know, you could sent it back to that newspaper, they would print it.

The family that was sitting at home worrying about the soldier that was over there would see the picture of their son or daughter, more sons, I'm afraid. But they would get that boost and then, inevitably the small town newspapers, the 'Fennimore Times,' the 'Boscobel Dials,' the Heralds would, for free, so that GI's would have something to pick up at mail call, every week that newspaper would come out, they'd send it to Vietnam. You might get two or three at a time, you know, for mail call but, you'd end up getting that picture and you'd open it up and there'd be your picture doing what you did.