Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Touching recaps of yesteryears


             100,000 monks praying for the world in one picture.




            1958 in Belgium, this african girl was put in a zoo( more like a human zoo)



        Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in           Venezuela.






         A Turkish official teases Armenian kids by showing them a piece of bread during the Armenian          Genocide, 1915.(tragic...)



     
        New Chinese paramilitary police recruit starts crying before being shipped for service.




We've come a long way haven't we...man in your shot Measuring bathing suits – if they were too short, women would be fined, 1920's




     Red cross nurse writes the last words of a dying british soldier during World War 1.



When you have seen war like this 106-year-old Armenian, you would understand why. this 106 year old woman guards her home picture taken in 1990.





10 year old Yemeni girl smiling after she was granted a divorce from her husband - a grown adult.(interesting...)




         Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956( i wonder if it worked, it sure looks like it            here)




.           A 7-month-old extremely malnourished is held by his mother at a rescue center in Kenya.
             The child is said to have made a full recovery.






Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski's son accepts the flag for his father during a memorial service. He was shot a few weeks before he was due to return home.(sad...)





A man is having his nose measured by the Nazi  police to decide whether or not he is Jew. Hitler had   a stereotype that Jewish noses are larger than Aryan noses.





              A violinist cries while playing at a 9/11 memorial service in Vancouver.





     A widow receives her husband's body about after 63 years. Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Gantt died during the Korean War in 1951.(very sad...)





 Robert Peraza falls to his knees as he touches his son's name at the 9/11 memorial. hmmmm





 A sergeant looks after a 2-week-old kitten during the Korean War.






      A Japanese girl placed in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through the window.







                        A dog sits next to the grave of its owner, who passed away in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janeiro in 2011.







John F Kennedy Jr. at his father's funeral, saluting his coffin. JFK was assassinated on 22nd November, 1963.






 A South Korean cries as a North Korean relative waves goodbye. A temporary 3-day family reunion was allowed after 60 years between families from across the border in October, 2010.( how tragic...)





 The LIFE magazine photo of U.S. Navy Officer Graham Jackson, a friend of President Roosevelt, playing at his funeral April, 1944.







the story of Life...how it really ought to be.  Father and son in 1949, 2009 and 2011.





 A couple kisses after the girl was knocked down by a policeman during the Vancouver riots, which occurred after Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks, in June, 2011.





 A war veteran from Russia kneels in front of a tank that he spent the war in. The tank is now a museum.






12-year-old Brazilian kid, Diego Torquato, plays violin at his teacher's funeral, who had helped him escape violence & poverty through music.





Thania Sayne leans on the headstone of her husband the day before their wedding anniversary on 16 October 2013. (so sad...)







Life as it is...There are two sides to every story. 




 the saddest embrace ever...!
The final embrace of a couple that died after a factory collapsed in Bangladesh.




 A man jumps to his death from the World Trade Centre during the 9/11 attack. (sighing...)





 When, for some, the color of skin becomes greater than humanity: Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964 When, for some, the color of skin becomes greater than humanity: Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, ca. 1964.





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