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Old June 21st, 2008, 07:07 AM
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It took me a while to come across this one Paul, .....gosh, that one really got me.
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It took me a while to come across this one Paul, .....gosh, that one really got me.
Same here, Bill.

There are a million words in that child's face.

The two that jump out at me are - "Daddy's home".
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These are both fairly famous photos made by photographer W. Eugene Smith. The second one actually appeared on a US postage stamp in 2002.

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Lt Jack Reynolds, 2nd Batalion, South Staffordshire Regiment gives it to the cameraman outside Arnhem as he's marched of into captivity, September 19, 1944.

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A young 12.SS Hitler Jugend Panzergrenadier beaten to within' inches of his life n' his Canadian Guard detail, August 9, 1944, Normandy.
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It took me a while to come across this one Paul, .....gosh, that one really got me.
Same here, Bill.

There are a million words in that child's face.

The two that jump out at me are - "Daddy's home".
Not only the child's face, but the fact that there is no inkling of which side they are from....This pic is universal. This one, and many more posted here will be used in my classroom next year. Many thanks to all the posters.
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Recently liberated from a slave labor camp by the 13th Armored Division, Russian women place flowers at the feet of American soldiers killed in the fighting.

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