Back to Combat Art - VIETNAM   GENTLY, EVER SO GENTLY Original Acrylic/Canvas Painting A soldier's greatest fear is the bullet that seemingly comes out of nowhere, to be followed by the distant crack and echo of a sniper's rifle shot. Most times the round snaps harmlessly by, and time is frozen as we dive for scanty cover in the rice paddy mud we have been struggling through. But, all too often the sniper bullet does find its target, and inflicts grievous wounds, or snuffs out a life. Urgently, desperately we search the distant trees, the green jungle bordering this flooded expanse of paddies, then call artillery fire onto suspected locations. As we cautiously rise to continue our laborious walk through deep mud, and not on the dry, inviting dikes bordering the paddies (for fear of land mines), we hear the distant popping sound of the "dust off" (Med Evac) chopper coming to pick up the latest casualty. The medics, mud covered angels of mercy, seemingly oblivious to their own danger, have been struggling to keep our comrade alive and are now placing the bandage....gently, ever so gently. CANVAS Art Prints (20" x 28") Limited Edition of 400, Signed by the Artist Numbered, Mounted, Stretched $210.00 *Please note*: Artist Frank Thomas' studio lithographic art print sales are discontinued from 10 March 2007 until 1 October of 2008. He and his wife are serving for eighteen months in the Ohio-Cleveland Mission, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), at the Kirtland Historic Sites, Kirtland, Ohio. He has set up his art studio and is producing additional LDS historical paintings at that location. Rolled canvas art prints (only) are available and may be purchased by calling Frank at (435) 406-9526 or contact by email wildgoose@crystalpeaks.com.