Gents
Thanks for the kind words!
I tried to capture the appearance
of a healthy young man... a sharp
shooter in between shots.... changing
position and cursing as he missed the
first shot.
As for the hair, I remember I had a conversation
with an elderly German gentleman who served as
FJ during WW2. He told me a story that he and his
comrades raided a partisan hold-out in Italy outside
Rome and found no partisans but whole lot of Italian
cash. The first thing they did was to go to Rome, get a
hair cut and bought new pair of boots. Shortly after,
he was captured by Allied troops. Now he lives in US.
The lock of hair was in honor of him and his story.