By: Jack Shepherd
A moving collection of iconic photographs from the last 100 years
that demonstrate the heartbreak of loss, the tremendous power of
loyalty, and the triumph of the human spirit.
1.
Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.
A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. (More pictures
here.)
3.
A Romanian child hands a heart-shaped balloon to riot police during protests against austerity measures in Bucharest.
4.
Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.
5.
A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.
Image by Asianewsphoto / Reuters
6.
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.
Image by Vanderlei Almeida / Getty Images
7.
The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute: African American athletes
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of
solidarity at the 1968 Olympic games. Australian Silver medalist Peter
Norman wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in support of
their protest. Both Americans were expelled from the games as a result.
Image by Associated Press / AP
8.
Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an
internment camp "death train" near the Elbe in 1945. (More pictures and
the full story
here.)
9.
John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father's coffin along with the honor guard.
10.
Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the uprisings in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011.
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11.
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.
Image by Kim Ho-Young / Reuters
12.
A dog is reunited with his owner following the tsunami in Japan in 2011.
13.
"Wait For Me Daddy," by Claude P. Dettloff, October 1, 1940: A line
of soldiers march in British Columbia on their way to a waiting train
as five-year-old Whitey Bernard tugs away from his mother's hand to
reach out for his father. (H/t
Jodi P)
14.
Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by
sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela. (Héctor Rondón Lovera)
15.
Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas
after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer's riot shield in
Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver
Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins.
Image by Rich Lam / Getty Images
16.
A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April of 2011.
Image by Jeff Roberts / AP
17.
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.
Image by Jim Mahoney/Dallas Morning News / AP
18.
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.
Image by Stan Honda / Getty Images
19.
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.
Image by Yomiuri Shimbun / Reuters
20.
A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.
21.
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.
22.
A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating
Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.
Image by Mark Pardew / Reuters
23.
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.
Image by Justin Lane-Pool / Getty Images
24.
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."
25.
Tanisha Blevin, 5, holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina
victim Nita LaGarde, 105, as they are evacuated from the convention
center in New Orleans.
Image by Eric Gay / AP
26.
A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.
Image by Yuriko Nakao / Reuters
27.
Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been arrested in North
Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, are reunited with their
families in California after a successful diplomatic intervention by the
U.S.
Image by Robyn Beck / Getty Images
28.
Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.
29.
"La Jeune Fille a la Fleur," a photograph by Marc Riboud, shows the young pacifist
Jane Rose Kasmir
planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a
protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photograph
would eventually become the symbol of the
flower power movement.
30.
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.
Image by Jeff Widener / AP
31.
Another,
recently unearthed
photo of the Tank Man incident, which shows a new angle of his act of
protest, now at a distance. Tank Man can be seen through the trees on
the left, and the tanks can be seen on the far right.
Image by Terril Jones / AP
32.
Harold Whittles hears for the first time ever after a doctor places an earpiece in his left ear.
33.
Helen Fisher kisses the hearse carrying the body of her 20-year-old
cousin, Private Douglas Halliday, as he and six other fallen soldiers
are brought through the town of Wootton Bassett in England.
Image by photos / Getty Images
34.
U.S. Army troops wade ashore during the D-Day Normandy landings on June 6, 1944.
35.
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.
36.
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.
Image by Daily News Journal, Aaron Thompson, File / AP
37.
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.
38.
A Sudan People's Liberation Army soldier stands at attention on the eve of South Sudan's independence from Sudan.
Image by Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
39.
Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012.
Image by The Decatur Daily, Gary Cosby Jr / AP
40.
Earthrise: A photo taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.
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