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this one from 2023, one of the most incredible places I have ever seen.
We started in the morning, strong windy breezes and biting cold there. But when you finally open your eyes, you enjoy the harsh weather and have a single malt with your best friend there. What more could you want?
In the November pogrom of 9 to 10 November 1938 synagogues, prayer houses and shops of Jews were devasted in Germany. It was the beginning of the systematic persecution of Jews which led to the Holocaust. To remember this day gives us a task for everyday: to counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance that lead to violation of human rights.
One World Trade Center is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center Complex in Lower Manhattan, NYC, It's the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the sixth-tallest in the world.
One World Trade Center shining on an evening in Spring
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A field of honor, forever.
On September 11th, 2001, one of the worst aviation disasters and terrorist attacks on the United States took place. Four aircraft were hijacked with the intent of wreaking havoc on the country.
On one of the four hijacked aircraft, United Airlines Flight #93, the passengers and crew retaliated against their captors and prevented it from reaching its intended target (purportedly being the United Stated Capitol). Their bravery and sacrifice not only prevented further catastrophic loss of life, but gave investigators vital information into the perpetrators of the attack.
An ordinary field to an uninformed onlooker, this field outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, is their final resting place. The Boulder at the center of the frame marks the impact point.
I highly recommend a visit to the Flight 93 National Memorial. A sombering but educational experience.
In honor of my brother-in-law, Allan Smith...actor and member of the San Francisco Mime Troup..passed away in 1985. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIR1RuRjPUk
"Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11."
- President Obama
The 9/11 Memorial Lights illuminating the Downtown Manhattan and the NYC Skyline
As seen from Hoboken, NJ (9/8/22) #memorial #neverforget #september #newyork #nyc #worldtradecenter #newyorkcity #wtc #twintowers #th #manhattan #usa #firstresponders #nypd #fdny #america #wewillneverforget #remember #sept #worldtradecentermemorial #police #ny #groundzero #twintowersnyc #heroes #nypdblue #freedomtower #oneworldtradecenter #tribute
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields."
— Lt.-Col. John McCrae
Born: November 30, 1872 - Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Died: January 28, 1918 - Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Occupation: Poet, physician, author, Lieutenant Colonel of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (1872 - 1918)
The poppies referred to in the poem grew in profusion in Flanders in the spoiled earth of the battlefields and cemeteries where war casualties were buried and thus became a symbol of Remembrance Day. The poem is part of Remembrance Day solemnities in Allied countries which contributed troops to World War I, particularly in countries of the British Empire that did so.
The poem "In Flanders Fields" was written after John McCrae witnessed the death, and presided over the funeral, of a friend, Lt. Alexis Helmer. By most accounts it was written in his notebook and later rejected by McCrae. Ripped out of his notebook, it was rescued by a fellow officer, Francis Alexander Scrimger, and later published in Punch magazine.
Seems appropriate on Memorial Day to show a photo that I took a couple years back and just rediscovered in the past couple of weeks. I can remember the day I took it clearly though...driving through the Middle Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery and thinking how grateful I am to live in this country and know that there is an 'army' of men and women laying their lives on the line to defend it. But more somberly and respectfully, I was thinking about the many who have given the ultimate sacrifice in service of their country. That is what Memorial Day is about...remember them always!! They are true heroes to be idolized in the most red, white, & blue, patriotic American way possible...
Take a break from the vitriol while imagining what it would be like if your entire inventory of belongings fit into a single locker much like these prisoner lockers in Dachau. What would your days look or be like?
WE SAID NEVER AGAIN. LET'S MEAN IT! I CERTAINLY DO.
"Racism is what fools use for reason." (Voltaire)
The reflecting pool at The National September 11 Memorial, Ground Zero in New York City.
www.911memorial.org/about-memorial
#neverforget
A night view of New York City skyline focusing on WTC clicked from Exchange place waterfront, New Jersey.
“Probably one of my favourite location that I discovered this year in Switzerland. And now, i make it meaningful to me by celebrating the 3rd death anniversary of my mother. I love to take the time to explore, and remember her for everything that she has taught me over the years. Switzerland offers some of the best places to reflect with yourself. #never_stop_exploring #neverforget #Tourism #Reflection #BodyOfWater #Nature #Cloud #MountainRange #Landscape #Mountain #TranquilScene #ScenicsNature #Tranquility #Travel #Lake #Outdoors #Sky #swiss_landscapes #switzerland_bestpix #switzerland_destinations #switerland #swizerland_landscape #rain_mood #rain_photography #rainbow”
Federico García Lorca (05/06/1898, Granada, Spain – 19/08/1936, Granada, Spain) was a poet, playwright and man of theatre: one of the highest and most widely recognised voices of 20th-century literature.
He was born in Andalusia into a well-off family: his father, Federico García Rodríguez, was a landowner, while his mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero, was an elementary school teacher (and would become his first great cultural guide). He grew up between countryside and city life, within an environment where popular music, oral tradition, religious ritual and social conflict shaped everyday reality: all of this would become living substance in his poetry.
He studied in Granada and developed his education across humanistic and artistic disciplines; in 1919 he moved to Madrid and entered the Residencia de Estudiantes, the most important centre of modern Spanish intellectual life. There he encountered and took part in the avant-gardes, forming decisive ties, including with Salvador Dalí. Lorca became a central figure of the Generation of ’27, able to unite popular roots with experimentation.
He soon achieved national fame with Romancero Gitano (1928), which transformed Andalusian tradition into modern poetry with universal power. Between 1929 and 1930 he lived in New York: the impact of the metropolis—capitalist violence, racism and dehumanisation—entered his vision and later flowed into Poeta en Nueva York (published after his death).
In the 1930s Lorca increasingly became theatre. He wrote absolute masterpieces such as Blood Wedding (1933), Yerma (1934) and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936), works in which he portrayed social repression, moral violence, and control over bodies and desire, especially in women’s lives. His theatre is denunciation, compassion, and blade.
At the same time, he chose cultural commitment: with La Barraca (from 1932), a travelling university theatre company, he brought the classics to villages and rural areas, turning theatre into a civic and popular act. In this, Lorca became a symbol: an artist who did not write only for salons, but for the people.
When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July 1936, Lorca became a target. He was a progressive intellectual, close to republican and socialist ideals, and he was also persecuted for being gay. He was arrested in Granada and, in August 1936, killed by Francoist forces: a political execution. His death became a symbol of what fascism does when it fears art: it eliminates artists to terrorise an entire society.
He died at 38, but his work survived as testimony of freedom: a voice no regime has ever managed to extinguish.
I publish these images to keep their names alive.
They were killed for truth, justice and human dignity—because hatred and injustice feared them.
This series is an act of remembrance and resistance: to educate, to refuse indifference, and to make sure their voices are not erased.
Because hatred and injustice must not have the last word.
Never Forget!
Isart unter der Brudermühlbrücke - ich war mit meinem Projektionsradl da und durfte auf die neuen Graffiti Bilder projizieren.
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Second year for us heading to Jersey City, NJ to view the lights of the 911 Memorial in downtown Manhattan. Going to try to make it a yearly tradition.
Battle of The Somme ~ Fenced in Sunset ~ Colchester ~ Essex ~ England ~ June 9th 2008.
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The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of upper reaches of the River Somme in France. It was the largest battle of the First World War on the Western Front; more than one million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history.
The French and British had committed themselves to an offensive on the Somme during Allied discussions at Chantilly, Oise, in December 1915. The Allies agreed upon a strategy of combined offensives against the Central Powers in 1916, by the French, Russian, British and Italian armies, with the Somme offensive as the Franco-British contribution. Initial plans called for the French army to undertake the main part of the Somme offensive, supported on the northern flank by the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). When the Imperial German Army began the Battle of Verdun on the Meuse on 21 February 1916, French commanders diverted many of the divisions intended for the Somme and the "supporting" attack by the British became the principal effort.
The first day on the Somme (1 July) saw a serious defeat for the German Second Army, which was forced out of its first position by the French Sixth Army, from Foucaucourt-en-Santerre south of the Somme to Maricourt on the north bank and by the Fourth Army from Maricourt to the vicinity of the Albert–Bapaume road. The first day on the Somme was also the worst day in the history of the British army, which had c. 57,470 casualties, mainly on the front between the Albert–Bapaume road and Gommecourt, where the attack was defeated and few British troops reached the German front line. The British troops on the Somme comprised a mixture of the remains of the pre-war regular army, the Territorial Force and the Kitchener Army, which was composed of Pals battalions, recruited from the same places and occupations.
The battle is notable for the importance of air power and the first use of the tank. At the end of the battle, British and French forces had penetrated 6 miles (9.7 km) into German-occupied territory, taking more ground than in any of their offensives since the Battle of the Marne in 1914. The Anglo-French armies failed to capture Péronne and halted 3 miles (4.8 km) from Bapaume, where the German armies maintained their positions over the winter. British attacks in the Ancre valley resumed in January 1917 and forced the Germans into local withdrawals to reserve lines in February, before the scheduled retirement to the Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line) began in March. Debate continues over the necessity, significance and effect of the battle.
Two columns of light pierce the night sky where the World Trade Towers once stood. Today, on the 14th anniversary of the tragedy, Liberty State Park was more crowded than I've ever seen it. Even though it was crowded, the park was nearly silent.
Als eine Folge des zweiten Weltkrieges senkte sich am 13. August 1961 endgültig der eiserne Vorhang in Berlin. Die kommunistische/sozialistische Regierung der DDR errichtete die Berliner Mauer.
28 Jahre später, am 9. November 1989 wurde die Berliner Mauer von den Bürgern der DDR niedergerissen.
Niemals darf das Leid und die Toten an der Mauer vergessen werden.
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As a result of the Second World War, the Iron Curtain finally fell on August 13, 1961 in Berlin. The Communist / Socialist government of the GDR built the Berlin Wall.
28 years later, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was demolished by the citizens of the GDR.
Never should the suffering and the dead on the wall be forgotten.
19 years ago, the world changed forevever, As a first responder, this day I will #neverforget, here is NS 911 on 9/11 heading South, leading K90 pass the Manassas Train Depot
"Den Haag, Jewish Orphanage “Ezer Jatom” (Help for Orphans)"
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The image shows the moment of deportation and the vulnerability of the children. A girl is waiting on the side with a briefcase in her right hand. In her other hand a doll, which she holds tightly against her, as if to derive some certainty and tenderness from it.