I have an idea for a new thread...

[Hairy]

 

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... 

 

[Hairy]

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]

[sawystertrance]

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/

[geomark]

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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[Eddy Gordo]

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[Eddy Gordo]

 

 

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http://cdn.primedia.co.za/primedia-broadcasting/image/upload/c_limit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_700/yaj2knsblcbokwh0wt9g.jpg

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http://historyloversclub.com/wp-content/uploads/content/40/400890804301633402.jpg

Malibu, California, 1961

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http://historyloversclub.com/wp-content/uploads/content/41/419327415284868622.jpg

 

Soviet snipers moving amongst ruined buildings in Stalingrad Russia 1 Dec 1942