moving and breathtaking collection

7/28/2019 Moving and Breathtaking Collection

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Moving and breathtaking collection oficonic photos of the last 100 years.Years go by and these photos will remain as a reminder of the choices we madeand people we have lost as well as the bravery and loyalty and human faith.Some people are heroes and some were there to make a photo which willbeforever in our minds.

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Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.

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A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now amonument.

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A Romanian child hands a heart-shaped balloon to riot police during protestsagainst austerity measures in Bucharest.


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Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the

Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.

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A dog named Leao sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner,who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011.


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The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute: African American athletes Tommie Smithand John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity at the 1968 Olympicgames. Australian Silver medalist Peter Norman wore an Olympic Project for HumanRights badge in support of their protest. Both Americans were expelled from thegames as a result.

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Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an internment camp deathtrain near the Elbe in 1945.

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John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his fathers coffin along with the honor guard.

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Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the uprisings in Cairo,Egypt, in 2011.

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A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps, following aluncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions at MountKumgang resort October 31, 2010. Four hundred and thirty-six South Koreans wereallowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet their 97 North Korean relatives,whom they had been separated from since the 1950-53 war.

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A dog is reunited with his owner following the tsunami in Japan in 2011.

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Wait For Me Daddy, by Claude P. Dettloff, October 1, 1940: A line of soldiersmarch in British Columbia on their way to a waiting train as five-year-old WhiteyBernard tugs away from his mothers hand to reach out for his father. (H/t Jodi P)

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Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire duringa revolt in Venezuela. (Hctor Rondn Lovera)


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Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she wasknocked to the ground by a police officers riot shield in Vancouver, BritishColumbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to

the Boston Bruins.

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A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which wascompletely destroyed by a tornado in April of 2011.

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Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas is overcome with emotion as heembraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during the Dallas Veterans DayCommemoration at Dallas City Hall in 2005. Sgt Graunke, who was a member of aMarine ordnance-disposal team, lost a hand, leg, and eye while defusing a bomb in

Iraq in July of 2004.

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Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace afterbecoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerksoffice in 2011.

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A 4-month-old baby girl in a pink bear suit is miraculously rescued from the rubbleby soldiers after four days missing following the Japanese tsunami.

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A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.

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PoW Horace Greasley defiantly confronts Heinrich Himmler during an inspection ofthe camp he was confined in. Greasley also famously escaped from the camp andsnuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with a local German girl hehad fallen in love with.

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A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfiresthat burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.

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Robert Peraza pauses at his sons name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenthanniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.

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Jacqueline Kennedy wears her pink Chanel suit, still stained with the blood of herhusband, as Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office in Air Force One.

According to Lady Bird Johnson, who was also present:

Her hair [was] falling in her face but [she was] very composed I looked at her.Mrs. Kennedys dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely coveredwith it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood her husbandsblood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights that immaculatewoman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.

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Tanisha Blevin, 5, holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde,105, as they are evacuated from the convention center in New Orleans.

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A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window inNihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.

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Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been arrested in North Korea andsentenced to 12 years hard labor, are reunited with their families in California aftera successful diplomatic intervention by the U.S.

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Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.

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La Jeune Fille a la Fleur, a photograph by Marc Riboud, shows the young pacifistJane Rose Kasmir planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagonduring a protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photographwould eventually become the symbol of the flower power movement.

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The iconic photo of Tank Man, the unknown rebel who stood in front of a column ofChinese tanks in an act of defiance following the Tiananmen Square protests of1989.

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Another, recently unearthed photo of the Tank Man incident, which shows a newangle of his act of protest, now at a distance. Tank Man can be seen through thetrees on the left, and the tanks can be seen on the far right.

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Harold Whittles hears for the first time ever after a doctor places an earpiece in hisleft ear.

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Helen Fisher kisses the hearse carrying the body of her 20-year-old cousin, PrivateDouglas Halliday, as he and six other fallen soldiers are brought through the townof Wootton Bassett in England.

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U.S. Army troops wade ashore during the D-Day Normandy landings on June 6,1944.

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A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with hisdaughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one year old.


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Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt.Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrolduring his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeksbefore he was due to return home.

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Pele and British captain Bobby Moore trade jerseys in 1970 as a sign of mutualrespect during a World Cup that had been marred by racism.

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A Sudan Peoples Liberation Army soldier stands at attention on the eve ofSouthSudans independence from Sudan.

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Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home inAlabama following the Tornado in March, 2012.

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Earthrise: A photo taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in1968.

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