Important Pictures Throughout History

FinchCo Published 09/11/2012

famous pics from the past

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Kabul, Afghanistan 40 years apart
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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.
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Into The Valley Of Death. Ladder 118 and her six-man crew race across the Brooklyn Bridge just minutes after the second plane hit the World Trade Center. Sadly, all six men would lose their lives that day.
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USS Cole limps out of the Port of Aden, Yemen after being struck by a small boat laden with explosives. Seventeen sailors lost their lives that day.
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President Reagan less than a second before the madman Hinckley opened fire.
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A Date Which Will Live In Infamy. 1,177 lives were lost when the battleship Arizona exploded during the Pearl Harbor Attack almost half of the 2,403 killed that day.
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The 2011 Japan Tsunami
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Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson was scheduled to play his accordion for President Franklin Roosevelt's enjoyment on April 12, 1945. Instead he played "Going Home" as the President's body was escorted away from the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga.
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A father stares at the hands of his five year-old daughter, which were severed as a punishment for having harvested too little caoutchoucrubber.
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Little girl screaming after an Afghan suicide attack.
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Holocaust child asked to draw home
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The vulture is waiting for the girl to die to eat her. The photograph was taken by South African photojournalist, Kevin Carter, while on assignment to Sudan. He took his own life a couple of month later due to depression.
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Child of a KKK member is innocently curious about a black police officer.
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Man Walks on Moon
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One of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz Colombia volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985.The 13-year old had been trapped in water and concrete for 3 days, and this photo was taken shortly before she died. Her eyes probably are so dark because of internal bleeding..
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There were significant health concerns for a huge percentage of the Haiti population, in the midst of devastating infrastructure damage and chaos. This man is trying to dispose of the massive amount of dead bodies.
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Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 911
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The picture is of the charred remains of an Iraqi Soldier with his last expression of pain imprinted on his face, his arms slumped over the window of the truck, attempting to lift himself out.
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Sunset on Mars.Thanks for viewing

1.
Kabul, Afghanistan 40 years apart
2.
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.
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Into The Valley Of Death. Ladder 118 and her six-man crew race across the Brooklyn Bridge just minutes after the second plane hit the World Trade Center. Sadly, all six men would lose their lives that day.
5.
6.
USS Cole limps out of the Port of Aden, Yemen after being struck by a small boat laden with explosives. Seventeen sailors lost their lives that day.
7.
President Reagan less than a second before the madman Hinckley opened fire.
8.
A Date Which Will Live In Infamy. 1,177 lives were lost when the battleship Arizona exploded during the Pearl Harbor Attack almost half of the 2,403 killed that day.
9.
The 2011 Japan Tsunami
10.
Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson was scheduled to play his accordion for President Franklin Roosevelt's enjoyment on April 12, 1945. Instead he played "Going Home" as the President's body was escorted away from the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga.
11.
12.
13.
A father stares at the hands of his five year-old daughter, which were severed as a punishment for having harvested too little caoutchoucrubber.
14.
Little girl screaming after an Afghan suicide attack.
15.
Holocaust child asked to draw home
16.
The vulture is waiting for the girl to die to eat her. The photograph was taken by South African photojournalist, Kevin Carter, while on assignment to Sudan. He took his own life a couple of month later due to depression.
17.
Child of a KKK member is innocently curious about a black police officer.
18.
Man Walks on Moon
19.
One of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz Colombia volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985.The 13-year old had been trapped in water and concrete for 3 days, and this photo was taken shortly before she died. Her eyes probably are so dark because of internal bleeding..
20.
There were significant health concerns for a huge percentage of the Haiti population, in the midst of devastating infrastructure damage and chaos. This man is trying to dispose of the massive amount of dead bodies.
21.
Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 911
22.
The picture is of the charred remains of an Iraqi Soldier with his last expression of pain imprinted on his face, his arms slumped over the window of the truck, attempting to lift himself out.
23.
Sunset on Mars.Thanks for viewing