**JP** Photos with a Meaning

Photographs with a Meaning! (very touching)    1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer   able to stand the harassments after 4 days. January 12, 1960 . A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma   was murdered by an opponent student. 1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning. 1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments. 1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs. 1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietcong soldier. February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Cong soldier.. 1973. A few seconds before Chile 's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup. 1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses. 1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionary.   1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon . 1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations   in the general elections. 1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms. 1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger. 1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels. 1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola . 2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan . 2002. Soldiers and villagers in IRan are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father's pants before he is buried. 2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child. This life is a great puzzle, and survival is a great mystery!!! We have food, clothes, shelter, freedom, safety, some money, and friends and still we are fighting , deceiving our friends, relatives and ourselves for small personal gains..... Think.... Are those reasons big enough than these??????

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