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. \r
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- Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.\r
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- A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. \r
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- A Romanian child hands a heart-shaped balloon to riot police during protests against austerity measures in Bucharest.\r
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- Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in new.\r
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- A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.\r
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- 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, new.\r
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- 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.\r
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- Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an internment camp “death train” near the Elbe in 1945.\r
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- John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his fathers coffin along with the honor guard.\r
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- Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the uprisings in Cairo, Egypt, in new.\r
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- 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, new. 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.\r
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- A dog is reunited with his owner following the tsunami in Japan in new.\r
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- “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 mothers hand to reach out for his father.\r
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- Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela.\r
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- Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officers riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins.\r
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- A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April of new.\r
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- 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.\r
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- Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after becoming the first same- couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerks office in new.\r
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- 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.\r
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- A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.\r
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- 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.\r
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- A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in new.\r
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- Robert Peraza pauses at his sons name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.\r
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- 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.\r
According to Lady Bird Johnson, who was also present:\r
“Her hair [was] falling in her face but [she was] very composed … I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedys 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 husbands blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights – that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.”\r
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- 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.\r
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- Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.\r
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- A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument. \r
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- A Romanian child hands a heart-shaped balloon to riot police during protests against austerity measures in Bucharest.\r
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- Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in new.\r
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- A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.\r
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- 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, new.\r
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- 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.\r
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- Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an internment camp “death train” near the Elbe in 1945.\r
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- John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his fathers coffin along with the honor guard.\r
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- Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the uprisings in Cairo, Egypt, in new.\r
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- 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, new. 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.\r
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- A dog is reunited with his owner following the tsunami in Japan in new.\r
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- “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 mothers hand to reach out for his father.\r
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- Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela.\r
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- Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officers riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins.\r
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- A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April of new.\r
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- 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.\r
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- Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after becoming the first same- couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerks office in new.\r
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- 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.\r
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- A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.\r
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- 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.\r
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- A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in new.\r
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- Robert Peraza pauses at his sons name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.\r
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- 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.\r
According to Lady Bird Johnson, who was also present:\r
“Her hair [was] falling in her face but [she was] very composed … I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedys 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 husbands blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights – that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.”\r
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- 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.\r
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