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ratio1
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Oh I didn’t know countries actually decided to change sides.
Do you know what other countries did this as well?
Do you know what other countries did this as well?
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On 7 September 2009 , @ratio1, the Independent State of Samoa became the third country ever to change from right- to left-hand driving… There was Sweden as shown in the photo , but I don’t know which is the third .
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tad
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That little kid in the background is thinking he’s found his future career.
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Senator John McCain being retrieved by Hanoi residents from Truc Bach Lake after being shot down on Oct. 2,1967
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@tad , I learned to take note of and admire Senator John McCain after hearing what President Obama had to say about him at his election winning rally in Chicago .
I learned of the sacrifices he made for his country . A magnanimous man . May he rest in peace .
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I read earlier this week that he had that photo hanging in his office. What a character.
RIP Senator.
RIP Senator.
Mark121359
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Though I’m not a big fan of him politically, I respect his love for his country. Many forget that three months prior to his being shot down and imprisoned by the North Vietnamese, he was near the epicenter of the USS Forrestal fire, which claimed the lives of 134 sailors and nearly took his own life. (story below)
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F_Marturana
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Thank goodness I read the caption. Pretty gruesome looking.
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ShowersofRoses
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That is so disturbing. Where do you find these things, Rob?? Lol
I just search the internet @ShowersofRoses . Plus there are some websites which deal with photos of historical significance .
This one about the bombing of a street in Glasgow in WW1 gives me a sense of perspective . We have short memories , and we tend to focus on our present time and see it as far worse than any previous era . This photo teaches me that in no way have events in my country in my lifetime been anywhere near as horrific as those of the previous generation .
I often wonder what it would have been like for people at home if in WW2 they had had 24/7 News Channels and the media we have today .
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When I visited London in the summer of '86 I was stunned at how much of the city was still reduced to charred rubble.
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tad
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It went on for blocks and it looked like it had been that way for a long time. IIRC it was near Madame Tussaud’s. and seemed like a poorer part of the city.
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BartholomewB
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If it was near Madame Tussaud’s it wasn’t a poor part of the city … More likely, in that case, to be demolition to make way for a building project, as @Rob2 suggested. Or, of course – if it was charred rubble – there might have been a recent fire. But I’m sure there was no more WW2 bomb damage left in London, forty years after the end of the war. With the price of real estate in London, nobody would leave a site like that unbuilt for a day longer than they had to!
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My impression as a college student is that it looked like it had been bombed, it had been there a while, and it went on for blocks and blocks. I’d never seen anything like it before or since. It left quite the impression on me.
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I did not see any bomb damage when I visited London in the early 70 s. It was the same in Germany and Japan as well.
Sicily was another matter, but not so much damage wise, but there were many pill boxes, bunkers and things like that still present. There was quite a bit of unexploded ordinance about as well.
Sicily was another matter, but not so much damage wise, but there were many pill boxes, bunkers and things like that still present. There was quite a bit of unexploded ordinance about as well.
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