This one got to me.
Posted on 06/03/2012 11:26:48 AM PDT by EveningStar
This one got to me.
Yes. Rick Monday, a Chicago Cubs outfielder, grabbed the flag as it was about to be burned. Dodger Stadium, 1976
OMG!! That picture is SO powerful!!!!
OUTSTANDING!!!
"Being Near Memorial and Veterans Day"
These should have been the first two.
I know of no other photograph which is more powerful, historical or which exhibits triumph of the human spirit, than these two images.
Really? The most powerful? I’ve only seen about 10 of them.
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Damned freakin' hippies at Tianenmen Square, Normandy Beach, tornados, hurricanes and the moon...
Do you have the one of the guy standing on the bed of his pickup saluting as the plane carrying Reagan’s body was landing in California?
Thanks for posting this. I have collected photographs for years.
There is a wealth of powerful images at that web site.
When I think of a photo that is "moving", I always think of the photo of one of our guys in Iraq, with a little girl cradled in his arms, who had been a victim of a bombing.
If looks could kill, only two in the picture would be around today.
Good addition to the list (last helicopter out). That one always gets me. You can feel the fear and desperation, but also, I always wonder ‘how did it come to this?’
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I can’t believe they think these are the 40 most important photos and I agree pretty much they are huggy-kissy-love-my-pet liberal photos.
I didn’t see Iwo Jima, or the sailor kissing her girl on Times Square, very few action photos, nobody is doing anything, really, just a lot of emoting.
Picture of Canadian troops embarking probably taken on 6th Street of New Westminster if we consider they are marching to a railway station. The other option would by Main Street in Vancouver but the truckload of hay bales suggests something closer to a rural environment.
Amazing that the Canadians, with their limited population, were able to muster so many volunteers and over a year prior to Pearl Harbor.
Meh. Only a handful belong on the list. Most belong nowhere near it.
Missing:
Iwo Jima.
A woman who lost everything in the Tsunami.
World Trade Center collapsing.
Hitler in Paris.
Hiroshima.
Soldier kissing his girlfriend in Times Square.
Napalm girl.
Execution in Vietnam.
Helicopters taking off from Vietnamese embassy.
Ruby killing Oswald.
Concetration camp survivors stacked into their beds.
Kurdish girl with the green eyes.
Strange fruit (lynchings)
Baby reaching through woman’s stomach to survive.
Stalin toppling.
Lou Gherig’s farewell speech.
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