A moving collection of iconic photographs from the last 100 years
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2. A moving collection of iconic photographs
from the last 100 years that demonstrate the
heartbreak of loss,
the tremendous power of loyalty,
and the triumph of the human spirit.
3. PoW Horace Greasley defiantly confronts Heinrich Himmler during an
inspection of the camp he was confined in. Greasley also famously escaped
from the camp and snuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with
a local German girl he had fallen in love with.
4. Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.
5. A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument
6. A Romanian child hands a
heart-shaped balloon to riot
police
during protests against austerity
measures in Bucharest.
7. Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the Occupy
Wall Street protests in 2011.
8. A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in
Shanxi Taiyuan, China
9. 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
10. The 1968 Olympics Black
Power Salute: African
American athletes
Tommie Smith and John
Carlos raise their fists in a
gesture of solidarity
at the 1968 Olympic
games. Australian Silver
medalist Peter Norman
wore an Olympic Project
for Human Rights badge
in support of their protest.
Both Americans were
expelled from the games
as a result
11. Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an internment camp "death train"
near the Elbe in 1945
12. John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father's coffin along with the honor guard.
14. A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps, following a
luncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang
resort October 31, 2010. Four hundred and thirty-six South Koreans were allowed 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..
15. A dog is reunited with his owner following the tsunami in Japan in 2011.
16. "Wait For Me Daddy," by
Claude P. Dettloff, October
1, 1940:
A line of soldiers march in
British Columbia on their
way to a waiting train as
five-year-old Whitey
Bernard tugs away from
his mother's hand to reach
out for his father.
17. Navy chaplain Luis Padillo
gives last rites to a soldier
wounded by sniper fire during a
revolt in Venezuela.
18. Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was
knocked to the ground by a police officer's riot shield in Vancouver, British
Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to
the Boston Bruins.
19. A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was
completely destroyed by a tornado in April of 2011.
20. Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas is overcome with emotion as he
embraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during the Dallas Veterans Day
Commemoration at Dallas City Hall in 2005. Sgt Graunke, who was a member of a
Marine ordnance-disposal team, lost a hand, leg, and eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq
in July of 2004.
21. Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after
becoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerk's office
in 2011.
22. A 4-month-old baby girl in a pink bear suit is miraculously rescued from the rubble by
soldiers after four days missing following the Japanese tsunami.
23. A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.
24. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday
bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.
25. Robert Peraza pauses at his son's name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth
anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.
26. Jacqueline Kennedy wears her pink Chanel suit, still stained with the blood of her
husband, 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. Kennedy's dress was stained with blood.
One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked
with blood – her husband's blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights –
that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood."
27. 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.
28. A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in
Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.
29. Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been arrested in North Korea and
sentenced to 12 years hard labor, are reunited with their families in California after a
successful diplomatic intervention by the U.S.
30. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.
31. The iconic photo of Tank Man, the unknown rebel who stood in front of a column of
Chinese tanks in an act of defiance following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
32. "La Jeune Fille a la Fleur," a photograph by Marc Riboud, shows the young pacifist Jane
Rose Kasmir planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a
protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photograph would eventually
become the symbol of the flower powermovement.
33. Another, recently unearthed photo of the Tank Man incident, which shows a new angle
of his act of protest, now at a distance. Tank Man can be seen through the trees on the
left, and the tanks can be seen on the far right.
34. Harold Whittles hears for
the first time ever after a
doctor places an earpiece
in his left ear.
35. Helen Fisher kisses the hearse carrying the body of her 20-year-old cousin, Private
Douglas Halliday, as he and six other fallen soldiers are brought through the town of
Wootton Bassett in England.
36. U.S. Army troops wade ashore during the D-Day Normandy landings on June 6, 1944.
37. A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his
daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one year old.
38. 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 patrol
during his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeks before
he was due to return home.
39. Pele and British captain
Bobby Moore trade jerseys
in 1970 as a sign of mutual
respect during a World Cup
that had been marred by
racism.
40. A Sudan People's Liberation Army soldier stands at attention on the eve of South
Sudan's independence from Sudan.
41. Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after find her inside his destroyed home in Alabama
following the Tornado in March, 2012.
42. Earthrise: A photo taken by astronaut William Anders
during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.