Hoepker was and is a fool.

What did he expect them to do?

They were in conversation.

If that fool had been at my home he would have seen two people staring at the TV in disbelief while also trying to feed two young girls who were off to school. Would that have meant that we didn't care? Well we did care. One of my girls enlisted the next year.

I repeat... as a professional photographer for nearly 55 years... that Thomas Hoepker was an attention whore and a terrible arbiter of what is happening in front of his lens.

Perhaps the term "Hack" would work better.