War Years and Motorcycle Accident
During WWII, Ron became an official war photographer on the staff of Air Information with the South East Asia command of the British Royal Air Force, stationed in India, Indonesia and Singapore. In 1950, Ron was injured in an accident on his motorcycle combination, and has used a wheelchair since, though this hasn't prevented him pursuing his chosen career.
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Famous quotes containing the words war, years, motorcycle and/or accident:
“At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”
—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)
“Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man—and after that, praying.”
—Irish proverb.
“Kicking the heart
with pain’s big boots running up and down
the intestines like a motorcycle racer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)