Vietnam Veterans will tell you the most spectacular night display was a string of parachute flares around the perimeter. When howitzers and mortars fired illumination magnesium parachute flares, you could see American star shells exploding mid-air and their parachute flares floating down. Earth and clouds were often a glow with spooky light, as mirrored cinders skipped ponds, jungle marshes, and rise paddies, in watercolor dazzle.

Unforgettable were giant flares, kicked out of orbiting aircraft, casting star bursts of nova light, silhouetting mountains, and illuminating earth in islands of dreamscape. Stirring, were strings of dazzling white pearls, drifting earthward, each hovering in its silk parachute for enchanting minutes. Spectacular, were haloed million candlepower flares, dangling from their own fire-clouds, as they torched the sky.

As webmaster of two Viet vet web sites, Don Poss searched the web for photos of drifting flares. Finding none worthy of what he remembered from Vietnam, he created his own from personal Vietnam photos, and shared them on his web pages.

Ten years and thirty million web visitors later, this renowned programmer and graphic artist agreed to release a screensaver of limited number of colorful, breathtaking, and oft eerie night-flare scenes.

Trip-flares would turn concertina wire into a plague of fire and razor shadows. Hand-held parachute flares would arch up high and float gently down, lighting up an area of 50 yards. New Year’s Eve and Fourth of July fireworks can never rival a night of molten flares, or compare to this First Edition screen savers and prints, and those to follow.

First Edition ScreenSaver Prints:

Pearl Valley, Bunker, Dark Valley, Blackie 129x, Three Moons, Train Trestle, Nightlight, K9 Fighting Hole, Perimeter, Quiet Night, Runway, K9 Posting, Sampans, Rocket City, The Wall, Things That Go….