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On September 09 2012 02:19 Probe1 wrote:
I'll be honest. I'm more disturbed by how many people have said "This will win a Pulitzer Prize". Is that what comes to mind when you see the last moment of three mens lives?
To be honest, if you look at that picture in a disconnected way you might think it's the most beautiful picture ever taken, but, also if you take in account the circumstances of that picture, clearly you will think it's the most macabre one you ever seen. Quite a dichotomy. The power of that single picture resides in the fact that it raises so many conflicting feelings.
All in all, the sad truth (and the crude reality) is that things like depicted in that pictures sequence do happen and we cannot do anything against it (or at least we aren't trying to do something to prevent it)
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On October 15 2011 02:43 SeaSwift wrote:Where is this one from?
This man was injured during a protest against Stuttgart21, which is a project of the biggest train company in Germany. It was a protest of normal and friendly people and the police answered with tear gas and water cannons. As far as I know, that man lost his ability to see!
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Really disturbing. On the other hand the second thing i saw was the RPG. A clean hit of that would have turned the tank crew into ashes as well... Any tank commander would have ordered the shot immediately.
edit: My question was already answered, didn't see it. Poor rebels. 
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Fantasy
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Reality
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Mao was a man who loved humanity so much and was one of the most moral people I ever read about, that he felt entitlted to destroy humanity and caused more horror and atrocities than many brutal capitalists could imagine.
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This is an alternate universe where Bruce Wayne died instead of his parents. Causing His father Thomas Wayne to become Batman and his mother Martha to go insane and become the Joker.
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King: Spotted this male lion while on safari in Kruger National Park in South Africa. His disdain for the light clearly shows his imperiousness for those around him. (© Michaela May/National Geographic Photo Contest)
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American soldiers on Omaha Beach recover the dead after the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of France.
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USS Pruitt leads landing craft from USS Heywood toward their landing beaches in Massacre Bay, Attu, on the first day of the May 11, 1943 invasion of Attu. Pruitt used her radar and searchlight to guide the boats nine miles through the fog. The searchlight beam is faintly visible pointing aft from atop her pilothouse. Some 15,000 American and Canadian troops successfully landed on the island.
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as always, thank you so much stealthblue <3
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I admit this wouldn't be worth posting on its own however I want to follow up on what StealthBlue posted.
On 29 May, without hope of rescue, Yamasaki led his remaining troops in a banzai charge.
The momentum of the surprise attack broke through the American front line positions. Shocked American rear-echelon troops were soon fighting hand-to-hand combat with Japanese soldiers. The battle continued until almost all of the Japanese were killed. The charge effectively ended the battle for the island, although U.S. Navy reports indicate that small groups of Japanese continued to fight until early July.
In 19 days of battle, 549 soldiers of the 7th Division were killed and more than 1,000 injured. The Japanese lost over 2,850 men; only 29 prisoners were taken alive.
StealthBlues image is of some dozens of American personnel landing to retake the islands. Two weeks later the 15,000 invading defenders had isolated and contained the remaining Japanese. With no evacuation possible they charged the American lines.
Only 29 Japanese military personnel left Attu alive. Over 140000 military servicemen responded to the 8500 Japanese soldiers invasion. Half of those Japanese never left the island chain alive. In the two weeks after StealthBlues picture, only 29 Japanese survived and would leave the battle for Attu.
"The military importance of this frozen, difficult-to-supply island was questionable, but the psychological impact upon the Americans of losing U.S. territory was tangible."
It was, to my knowledge, the first time US territory had been invaded since the Mexican-American war of 1846.
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What are the odds of that happening?
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it looks fake, are you sure it's real?
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I apologize for the double post but I have something unrelated in context although it occurred just one month after Attu. In the same country that is remembered as unified against the Axis powers of the second world war, the city of Detroit faced three dark days of riots and violence. A brawl between white and black men grew into a city wide riot.
"Federal troops finally restored peace to the streets of Detroit. Over the course of three days, 34 people were killed, 25 of whom were African Americans in which 17 of them were killed by the police. Out of the approximately 600 injured, black people accounted for more than 75 percent and of the roughly 1,800 people who were arrested over the course of the three-day riots, black people accounted for 85 percent."
Eventually order was restored and the status quo of grossly underpaid and mistreated African Americans was enforced. 24 years later in 1967 Detroit would find itself embroiled in new race riots.
Governor George W. Romney, father of Mitt Romney, as well as Lyndon B Johnson authorized National Guard and Army troops to restore order to Detroit. 43 died, 467 were injured, 7,200 were arrested and over 2,000 buildings were destroyed. The scale of the riot was only surpassed by the New York City Draft Riots during the U.S. Civil War and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
+ Show Spoiler +I apologize again for the double post and not honoring the intent of the thread. Yes, these are stunning pictures that invoke many words. It is standard practice to allow the viewer to form his own and I have plainly included my own thoughts and findings on them. I hope that you find it alright that I have done so.
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On September 22 2012 19:57 Lanfire wrote:
it looks fake, are you sure it's real?
Fake, but funny.
... and probably not worth being in this thread (along with the batman one he also added)
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On September 22 2012 20:11 DannyJ wrote:Show nested quote +On September 22 2012 19:57 Lanfire wrote:
it looks fake, are you sure it's real? Fake, but funny. ... and probably not worth being in this thread (along with the batman one he also added)
And Vietnam pics do belong? They carry 0 emotional value for me.
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On September 23 2012 00:45 Manit0u wrote:Show nested quote +On September 22 2012 20:11 DannyJ wrote:On September 22 2012 19:57 Lanfire wrote:
it looks fake, are you sure it's real? Fake, but funny. ... and probably not worth being in this thread (along with the batman one he also added) And Vietnam pics do belong? They carry 0 emotional value for me.
come on man really? You're going to walk that line, and attempt to argue that?
Post that stuff in the funny pics thread man.
Just to make it clear. A FAKE gif, does not belong here as it doesn't carry the deeper attachments that a lot of the pictures here do. A drawing of batmans father and mother, being the new batman and joker? That's not even relevant. Don't try and argue it please. Just learn your lesson and post more relevant things.
Yes the Vietnam pictures do belong. They are educational for a lot of people and really capture the events and history that we all know about.
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I know and I'm sorry. It's just Vietnam gets me all pumped up...
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Its a picture thread so let him post a picture if he feels like it.We all have different perception of what is important to us so stop being childish about it.
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On September 23 2012 00:45 Manit0u wrote:Show nested quote +On September 22 2012 20:11 DannyJ wrote:On September 22 2012 19:57 Lanfire wrote:
it looks fake, are you sure it's real? Fake, but funny. ... and probably not worth being in this thread (along with the batman one he also added) And Vietnam pics do belong? They carry 0 emotional value for me.
Why would you even say that....
They say one thousand words. They mean a lot to a lot of people. It doesn't matter who you are, you can't deny that they carry a huge amount of history behind them and a huge amount of emotions behind them as well.
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On September 23 2012 02:46 sekritzzz wrote:
Its a picture thread so let him post a picture if he feels like it.We all have different perception of what is important to us so stop being childish about it.
Those were drawings and photo-manipulations :/ Hardly the same thing. Back on topic though please :/
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People throw colored powder as they celebrate "Lathmar Holi" at village Nandgaon in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on March 3, 2012.
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Rebel fighters carefully move up a stairway in a building where they had trapped government loyalist troops during street fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 20, 2011.
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