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Babaganoush
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How do you post a picture?
Historic , iconic photos and videos to share
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@Babaganoush , I’m hopeless at explaining technical things , I’ll have a try .
With the cursor on the photograph I right click on my mouse .
Up come a list of things , one of them being copy image .
So with the cursor on copy image I left click .
Then I go to where I want to post the photograph . I press two keys , the ctrl key and the v , and along comes the photograph .
If that doesn’t work , I hope a brighter bloke explains it better .
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Salibi
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I find it easier to post from the photo gallery of my phone.
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F_Marturana
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Sicilian peasant guiding Allied troop Battle of Troina.
Sicilian peasant guiding Allied troop Battle of Troina.
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Lebanese monks, Monastery of Saint Anthony of Qozhaya, the monastic center of the Maronite Church. (I posted a picture of modern day Qozhaya somewhere in the early parts of this thread).
Lebanese monks, Monastery of Saint Anthony of Qozhaya, the monastic center of the Maronite Church. (I posted a picture of modern day Qozhaya somewhere in the early parts of this thread).
My dad didn’t talk much about his days in the army during WW2 , but he did talk of this event .
On 16 December 1944 (the first day of the Ardennes Offensive) at 15.20 a V-2 rocket fired from Holland by the SS Werfer Battery 500 directly landed on the roof of the cinema called the Cine Rex in the Belgian city of Antwerp .There were approximately 1,100 people inside the cinema and the explosion killed 567 people including 296 Allied servicemen . It took nearly a week to dig all the bodies out of the rubble. It was the single highest death total from a single rocket attack during the war.
Because of this and other V-2 rocket attacks on Antwerp it became known as The City of Sudden Death .
So why did this stay in my dad’s memory ?
He had been watching a film in the Cine Rex the night before this happened .
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On 16 December 1944 (the first day of the Ardennes Offensive) at 15.20 a V-2 rocket fired from Holland by the SS Werfer Battery 500 directly landed on the roof of the cinema called the Cine Rex in the Belgian city of Antwerp .There were approximately 1,100 people inside the cinema and the explosion killed 567 people including 296 Allied servicemen . It took nearly a week to dig all the bodies out of the rubble. It was the single highest death total from a single rocket attack during the war.
Because of this and other V-2 rocket attacks on Antwerp it became known as The City of Sudden Death .
So why did this stay in my dad’s memory ?
He had been watching a film in the Cine Rex the night before this happened .
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Irishmom2
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Wow, Rob! I bet your father had many thoughts about “what if…” Or “why not me?” after that. Sobering.
Yes @Irishmom2 , I imagine my dad thought that way . He spoke little about the war , but that incident must have made him deeply aware of the precariousness of human life , and as you say , “Why not me ?”
Tis_Bearself
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My dad saw a kamikaze take out the ship next to his own, with many dead. He almost never spoke of the war, but one time he told me that story and said he thought he’d been living the rest of his life on borrowed time ever since. Unfortunately I was about 16 years old when he decided to drop that bombshell and it was too hard for me to listen to at that age so I asked him to please not talk about it any more. I feel bad about that now as he didn’t live that many more years, so by the time I was mature enough to hear about it, he had passed away.
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St. Seraphim’s one-room hut
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I recall seeing the film of this incident on the TV News . It has stayed with me to this day .
Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street in 1968 .
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Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street in 1968 .
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Venice, California 
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In 1915, real estate developer Abbott Kinney had several canals dug at the Los Angeles seaside neighborhood to mimic the famous Venice of Italy.
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A few of the canals are still there, only now most of the modest bungalows have been replaced with expensive mansions
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An interesting side note, the parish church in Venice, California is the Church of St. Mark, so named because St. Mark is the patron of Venice, Italy.
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In 1915, real estate developer Abbott Kinney had several canals dug at the Los Angeles seaside neighborhood to mimic the famous Venice of Italy.
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A few of the canals are still there, only now most of the modest bungalows have been replaced with expensive mansions
.An interesting side note, the parish church in Venice, California is the Church of St. Mark, so named because St. Mark is the patron of Venice, Italy.
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