Fallen Soldier’s Daughter Celebrating Father’s Day

"Checked out a book on breast cancer for a research project, someone left their library receipt in it. "

Apollo 1 disaster. Just a week before the crew & craft were due to attempt the 1st manned moon landing, a fire broke out during a rehearsal. All crewmen burned alive while their flight coordinators watched in horror. The airtight seal designed to keep them safe sealed them in and prevented rescue

11-Year-Old Brain Cancer Survivor Commits Suicide After Being Bullied About Looks. Bethany endured brain cancer eight years ago and after having a tumor removed was left with a “crooked” smile. It was that smile that kids at school allegedly noticed and picked on, according to Bethany’s dad, Paul Thompson.

Roman Polanski in shock during his first visit to the crimescene (his own home) where just a few days earlier the Manson family had slaughtered his pregnant wife and their friends

Looking through papers. He stayed on the bed for a while because he said it still smelled like Sharon.

Chilling photo of ‘Craigslist killer’ Richard J. Beasley, grinning at his trial where he would be sentenced to death for the murder of three men, only caught when his fourth victim escaped. He lured each man into meeting with a bogus job ad before taking them into the woods and executing them.

Afghan Muslims falsely accuse woman of burning a Quran, drag her into the street, and police are unable to contain the angry mob who beats her to death, stones her dead body, and set her body on fire.

“I had never felt such bliss in my life. And already after a few hours I slaughtered 1,100 people…” A Croatian fascist concentration camp guard describes a contest between the guards at the death camp Jasenovac to see which guard could kill most prisoners with his own hands in one night. “Franciscan Pero Brzica, Ante Zrinusic, Sipka and I waged a bet on who would slaughter more prisoners that night. The killing started and already after an hour I slaughtered much more than they did. It seemed to me that I was in seventh heaven. I had never felt such bliss in my life. And already after a few hours I slaughtered 1,100 people, while the others only managed to kill 300 to 400 each. And then, when I was experiencing the greatest ecstasy I noticed an elderly peasant standing and peacefully and calmly watching me slaughter my victims and them dying in the greatest pain. That look of his shook me: in the midst of the greatest ecstasy I suddenly froze and for some time couldn’t make a single move. And then I walked up to him and found out that he was some Vukasin [Mandrapa] from the village of Klepci near Capljina whose whole family had been killed, and who was sent to Jasenovac after having worked in the forests. He spoke this with incomprehensible peace which affected me more than the terrible cries around us. All at once I felt the wish to disrupt his peace with the most brutal torturing and, through his suffering, to restore my ecstasy and continue to enjoy the inflicting of pain. “I singled him out and sat him down on a log. I ordered him to cry out: ‘Long live Poglavnik [Fuehrer] Pavelić!’, or I would cut his ear off. Vukasin was silent. I ripped his ear off. He didn’t say a word. I told him once again to cry out ‘Long live Pavelić!’ or I would tear off the other ear too. I tore off the other ear. ‘Yell: “Long live Pavelić!”, or I’ll tear off your nose.’ And when I ordered him for the fourth time to yell ‘Long live Pavelić!’ and threatened to take his heart out with a knife, he looked at me, that is, somehow through me and over me into uncertainty and slowly said: ‘Do your job, child.’ [Radi ti, dijete, svoj posao.] After that, these words of his totally bewildered me. I froze, plucked out his eyes, tore out his heart, cut his throat from ear to ear and threw him into the pit. But then something broke within me and I could no longer kill that night.

The last picture tweeted by a 21 year old before going missing in a flood in Texas

The mutilated body of a US soldier is dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. 1993. This is from the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu (Somalia). The movie Black Hawk Down is based on this battle. The soldier is Staff Sergeant William David Cleveland, 34. He was awarded 4 medals posthumously.

Robert “Yummy” Sandifer committed 23 felonies including murder, armed robbery and arson before he was murdered by fellow gang members. He was 11 years old. Robert Sandifer was born on March 12, 1983. Sandifer’s mother, Lorina Sandifer, had over 30 arrests while prostituting, many of which were drug related. Sandifer’s father, Robert Akins, was absent for all of Sandifer’s life due to incarceration for a felony gun charge. Sandifer was in danger, according to child welfare authorities, severely mistreated and neglected. Before he was 3, Sandifer was already known to Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). Sandifer was alleged to have had cigarette burns on his arms and neck as well as linear bruising consistent with physical beatings. Lorina initially blamed the abuse on Sandifer’s father until officials learned he was not involved in Robert’s life. In 1986, Sandifer and his siblings were removed from his mother’s home by DCFS and were sent to live with their grandmother. His grandmother’s residence contained as many as 19 children on some occasions. By most accounts, his grandmother’s home was not much better than Sandifer’s previous home. Sandifer, by the age of 8, quit attending school and began to roam the streets stealing cars and breaking into houses. In 1993, Sandifer and his siblings were removed from his grandmother’s home and were sent to the Lawrence Hall DCFS shelter on Chicago’s north side, from which Sandifer ran away and never returned.

Young dolphin dies when it’s carried on the beach for people to stroke and take photographs. The rare species, which quickly dies when out of the water, lay dying on the beach as the crowd continued to take pictures

Veteran lits himself on fire in front of New Jersey VA clinic

Father loses his life due to an armed robbery the night he posts this

Gloves made from human skin by serial killer, Ed Gein.