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A Jeweler's Tale

Fate is quirky.

If the Vietnam War had never happened, Tullahoma jeweler Howard Thompson may never have discovered that he had a passion for nature photography.

It was 1965, and Thompson, who was enrolled in an ROTC program, knew that he would be destined for Vietnam as a commissioned officer.

"I knew that it would tear my parents apart, because I was an only child," says Thompson. "So I decided I would buy a camera and take pretty pictures and send them home. That way they wouldn't worry about me." 

As soon as he arrived overseas, Thompson, who had only taken pictures with a Kodak Brownie, bought his first single lens reflex camera— a Canon—roll of slide film, and immediately began to take pictures.      more > > >

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