I saw this the other day online and i was blown away how much they touched me, i teared up at a few. Its all over the web and i wouldn't be surprised if you've see it or most of the pictures before. What i loved was the captions and descriptions of the most powerful pictures. I tool liberties and only added the ones i loved, so forgive me that i didn't post all 40.
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| A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. |
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| A Romanian child hands a heart-shaped balloon to riot police during protests against austerity measures in Bucharest. |
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| 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. |
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A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.
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| A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps, following a luncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort October 31, 2010. Four hundred and thirty-six South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they had been separated from since the 1950-53 war. |
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| A dog is reunited with his owner following the tsunami in Japan in 2011. |
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| John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s coffin along with the honor guard. |
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| A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009. |
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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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| 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. |
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| Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after becoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerk’s office in 2011. |
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| A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14. |
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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.”
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| Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center. |
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| Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months. |
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| The iconic photo of Tank Man, the unknown rebel who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks in an act of defiance following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. |
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| A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one year old. |
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| Harold Whittles hears for the first time ever after a doctor places an earpiece in his left ear. |
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| U.S. Army troops wade ashore during the D-Day Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. |
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| Pele and British captain Bobby Moore trade jerseys in 1970 as a sign of mutual respect during a World Cup that had been marred by racism. |
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| 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. |
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| Earthrise: A photo taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968. |
