I have an idea for a new thread...

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[Hairy]

On Veterans Day, 8 unforgettable photos of Americans returning from war

 

New Yorkers hang out their windows on Sept. 10, 1919, to watch a victory parade down Fifth Avenue after the end of World War I. (National World War I Museum and Memorial)

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A World War I victory parade in Elgin, Ill. Members of the Army Nurse Corps, foreground, and the American Red Cross, background, wave to the crowds. (National World War I Museum and Memorial)

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These men were some of the first to be sent home from World War II after Germany's surrender. On May 25, 1945, they boarded this train to Le Havre, France, where they would sail back to the United States. The men wrote their cities and states of origin on the train. (Library of Congress)

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African American women in the Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion march in a victory parade on May 27, 1945, in Rouen, France, after Germany's surrender. They were the only African American women allowed to serve overseas during World War II. (National Archives)

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Enlisted men aboard the USS Ticonderoga celebrate after learning of Japan's surrender on Aug. 14, 1945. (National Archives and Records Administration)

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Master Sgt. Harry Lister is greeted by his wife and son after returning home from the Korean War on May 5, 1951. (Harry S. Truman Presidential Library)

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Prisoners of war cheer as their aircraft leaves Hanoi to return them home to the United States on Feb. 12, 1973. (U.S. Air Force)

[Stoffel76]

I don't get that meme?

Situational joke I think... It's mocking people from the suburb of Strandfontein, who make sure other people know they are not from neighbouring Mitchell's Plain, for behaving like elitist white people... Or something along those lines according to my coloured colleagues... 

 

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Lorrie Stirm, 15, runs to embrace her father, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, at Travis Air Force Base in California on March 17, 1973. He spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Behind them, left to right, are Bo Stirm, Cindy Stirm, Loretta Stirm and Roger Stirm. (Slava "Sal" Veder/AP)

 

EDIT: See additional info below RE the above pic.

 

Though the above photo, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974, has been named “Burst of Joy,” the Air Force pilot’s return was anything but. Soon after his release from a North Vietnamese prison camp — days before this photo was taken — Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm received a letter from his wife telling him she wanted a divorce.

Edited November 12, 2019 by Hairy

[Warren_G]

Bad day at the office [emoji21]

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Interesting story of the origins of the act of remembrance:

 

 

https://samilhistory.com/2017/11/02/the-2-minutes-silence-an-eye-witness-account-of-south-africas-unique-gift-to-remembrance/

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Interesting story of the origins of the act of remembrance:

 

 

https://samilhistory.com/2017/11/02/the-2-minutes-silence-an-eye-witness-account-of-south-africas-unique-gift-to-remembrance/

Interesting indeed. 

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