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Unfortunately, the story behind the photo was never published. The Nguyen Van Lem had just murdered a South Vietnamese colonel, his wife, and six children. Slit their throats while his comrades held them.
The photographer has said “Two people were killed in that photo, the man being shot and General Loan, who I murdered with my camera.”
 
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As one who has been there on a day when the water was a foot high and the church we were supposed to have Mass in was closed due to flood, the water is NOT clean, you are risking hepatitis or worse swimming in it, and you probably have a sizable rat population taking a dip with you.
 
Thank you, all who posted pictures. Many of them brought tears to my eyes.
 
The first photo of Earth from space, taken with a motion picture camera aboard the V-2 No. 13

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African-American sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their gloved fists in a black power salute at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City in 1968, while the U.S. national anthem played during the presentation of their medals.

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We were fortunate enough to have Mass at St. Mark’s tomb a year ago.
 
Portland, Maine, c1910. “Forest City Landing, Peaks Island.”

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Described by Winston Churchill as “a miracle of deliverance”, the recovery of hundreds of thousands of stranded British and French soldiers from Dunkirk during World War II .

The mass evacuation by the Royal Navy involved a still unknown number of amateur sailors who, for days, risked their lives alongside serving troops in a remarkable rag-tag flotilla of boats which helped ferry soldiers - trapped by Nazi forces - back across the Channel.

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That looks like a scene out of a movie. I look at what people are wearing then, and think of what clothing people wear now… :roll_eyes: Leggings and tee shirts. No thank you.
 
1946: Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York honors the life and canonization Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and patron saint of immigrants. She was America’s first canonized saint. Born in Italy, she came to America in 1889 and died in 1917.

 
Signs from the Apartheid past of South Africa

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“There is neither Jew nor Greek, we are all one in Christ Jesus…”
 
A little girl holds her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home. England. 1940.

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A young child named Freddie Somer cries upon arriving at King’s Cross Station in London for wartime evacuation from London in 1939.

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Three young evacuees sit on their suitcases ready for their journey away from the danger of the city. England. 1940.

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Children of London, who have been made homeless by the Blitz , wait outside the wreckage of what was their home. September 1940.

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A porter pushes the luggage of evacuees bound for Wales on a trolley at a London railway station, with a young boy perched on top of the suitcases. 1940.

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Young boys swing from a lamp post in the midst of rubble left by a bombing raid on London during the Blitz. 1940.

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The little girl with her dolly made me cry. Oh how many little girls have self soothed over countless generations in so many cultures by being the strong mommy to their babies just as she is doing. I pray one day we can all go back to such innocence amid tragedy and rubble.

All the children show such resilience. We can learn so much from them.
 
I’m old enough to remember the segregated south. I move there at six and in a grocery store there was a water fountain the stated “colored water fountain”. I was immensely disappointed that the water wasn’t colored. My mother had to explain it to me. She hated segregation and never really warmed to living there.
 
A workman at New York World’s Fair repaints the famed Perisphere, on June 6, 1939

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On January 10th, 1863, the world’s first underground passenger railway system opened in London

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