What a World...

A friend posted this website on Facebook the other day. It had what they believe were 40 of the most power photos ever taken. While I wouldn’t necessarily agree with this statement, I was certainly blown away by some of them.

When I see images from our history, I am always left with mixed emotions. Sometimes I am proud of the human race and the way they reach out to one other, stand brave in the face of fear or show intelligence greater than any other being. Sometimes I am simply horrified at the cruelty humans can inflict upon one another. War images in particular are enough to have me curled up in a crying ball. I really do not understand the futility of war.

I often wonder what God thinks when he says a collection of images like these…


A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011.
(Getty Images / Vanderlei Almeida)

Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an internment camp “death train” near the Elbe in 1945.
Via: hfcsd.org

John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s coffin along with the honor guard.
Via: iconicphotos.wordpress.com

A 4-month-old baby girl in a pink bear suit is miraculously rescued from the rubble by soldiers after four days missing following the Japanese tsunami.
(Reuters / Yomiuri Shimbun)

A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.
Via: iconicphotos.wordpress.com

PoW Horace Greasley defiantly confronts Heinrich Himmler during an inspection of the camp he was confined in. Greasley also famously escaped from the camp and snuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with a local German girl he had fallen in love with.
\Source: telegraph.co.uk

A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.
(Reuters / Mark Pardew)

Jacqueline Kennedy wears her pink Chanel suit, still stained with the blood of her husband, as Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office in Air Force One.

According to Lady Bird Johnson, who was also present:
“Her hair [was] falling in her face but [she was] very composed … I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedy’s dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood – her husband’s blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights – that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.”
Source: en.wikipedia.org  /  via: reddit.com

Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.

Source: projects.ajc.com  /  via: polichicksonline.com

Harold Whittles hears for the first time ever after a doctor places an earpiece in his left ear.

Source: Jack Bradley, date unknown  /  via: thehighdefinite.com

Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeks before he was due to return home.

(AP / Daily News Journal, Aaron Thompson, File)

A picture says a thousand words.

Samara

xx

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