POWERFUL Images.

[FreeMason]

Got this off a next forum buts its worth being posted here.

This is the wife of a US Marine who was killed in the War in Iraq, She asked if she could sleep next to him for one last time, and the Marines made as good a bed for her as they could, she played music on the laptop which reminded her of her husband until she fell asleep.As she was falling asleep, the Marine Standing guard asked her if she would like him to stay there. Her reply was " I think that's what he (her husband) would have wanted."

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/214612..._0f01247a3c.jpgJose Rizals executionH BOMB

Charlie Cole, USA, Newsweek.Beijing, China, 4 June 1989.Demonstrator confronts a line of People's Liberation Army tanks during Tiananmen Square demonstrations for democratic reform.

Discuss, which ones stand out to you?

[FreeMason]

Hachiko, an Akita dog in Japan, sets an example for loyalty by waiting patiently for its master’s return from work in a railway station. It did this routine for 11 years every day.The Akita breed dog, Hachikō was born or November 10, 1923 and died March 8, 1935. It is known in Japanese as 忠犬 ハチ公 (chūken hachikō, lit. 'faithful dog Hachikō'). It is remembered fondly in Japan for its intense loyalty, waiting for its master for more than 11 years.In 1924, Hachiko was brought to Tokyo by its master Hidesamuro Ueno, a professor in the agricultural department at the University of Tokyo. When Hachiko’s master went to work, it greeted him off at the front door, and when his master came back from work he usually went to the nearest railway station and waited for him there. It used to do this as a routine every day. However, his master died a year later in May 1925, but Hachiko kept this routine and waited for its master at the station for the next 11 years until its death in 1935.Others at the station initially thought it was waiting for something else or roaming around but later realized it was waiting for its dead master. So the vendors there used to give some bits of food and water for its unwavering loyalty. But others doubted it and said the dog might have come because of the food the vendors gave for it. If so, then the dog could have come at other times also, but appeared only in the evening time, precisely when the train was due at the station.One of the professor's students was able to document the reason for the dog coming to the station for its master. And the student returned several times over the years and saw the dog appear precisely when the train was due at the station in the evening. He published this fact in one of the Tokyo’s largest newspaper after which the dog became a national figure and everyone were impressed with the loyalty shown by the dog and used it as an example for their children and students to follow.The Hachiko StatueSoon after a well known artist did a sculpture of the dog which was erected at Shibuya Station and Hachikō himself was present at its unveiling. The statue had to be recycled later for World War II. However, they did the sculpture again, and the original artist’s son made the statue of the dog in 1948. This statue has become a popular meeting spot in Japan.

Douglas Martin, USA, The Associated Press.Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 4 September 1957. Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School.

Héctor Rondón Lovera, Venezuela, Diario La República.Puerto Cabello naval base, Venezuela,4 June 1962. A soldier who has been mortally wounded by a sniper clings ontonavy chaplain Luis Padillo.

Malcolm W. Browne, USA, The Associated Press.Saigon, South Vietnam, 11 June 1963. Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest against alleged religious persecution by the South Vietnamese government.

Kyoichi Sawada, Japan, United Press International.Loc Thuong, Binh Dinh, South Vietnam, September 1965. Mother and children wade across river to escape US bombing.

American troops drag the body of a Viet Cong soldier to be buried.

Chicago Drought Victim

Sadayuki Mikami, Japan, The Associated Press.Tokyo, Japan, 26 March 1978.Protest against the construction of Narita Airport.

1984

Pablo Bartholomew, India, Gamma.Bhopal, India, December 1984.Child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.

[The Facilitator]

i frt this thread was bumped

[RYDER.]

CANT BELIEVE I ACTUALLY LOOKED AT ALL THOSE IMAGESANWY GONE TO MAKE TOAST..

[Black Ant]

______>>>> humansi cant stress this enough

[FreeMason]

______>>>> humansi cant stress this enough

Very trueHumans are f*cked creatures

[Mizchif]

Real powerful images

[Kim]

what if the world stopped spinning though?or the sun just desided to get closer n closerthinkin bout theese things and ive jus scared myself........WHAT IF IM ALONE.

[Gillie]

Some are emotional still , the dog and the cat one give me jokes

[Mr. Gayle]

Some of them are DEEEEEEEEEP

[FreeMason]

Why is it so bright and why does it look so much like a star?HHHHHMMM

[Trilliam]

any positive ones?

[Kim]

Why is it so bright and why does it look so much like a star?HHHHHMMM

[VonBoyage]

[Bardissimo]

deep liek beef with a hole in your teethbut is just f*ck*ng hilarious

[Lieutenant]

BARE pain, suffering and struggle!

[FreeMason]

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/50years/flash.html

[Trilliam]

episode was heart wrenching.connie francis - i will wait for you playing in the background.*cries*

[O.Man]

A++++++++++++++ thread

[Black Ant]

i like pics like thisapparently astronauts (sp) have to go thru counselling b4 the go into spaceto prepre them for seeing earth in a different perspective

[Risky]

rahthe mum watchin her dead children is horrible

[Backspace]

The story about the dog made me cry. Bloody amazing animals.

[VonBoyage]

episode was heart wrenching.connie francis - i will wait for you playing in the background.*cries*

*cries* .. with the seasons going by n sh*t*barls*

[O.Man]

that sleeping with the coffin was f*ckin deep

[bane]

just kill be now tbh[DVS]ITS A COL COLD WORLD[DVS]