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A view of San Diego's Unconditional Surrender statue, more commonly known as the Kissing statue.
This 25 foot tall statue gives 3-D form and colour to the famous photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in chaotic Times Square as they celebrated the victory of the United States over Japan at the end of WW2.
Controversy has raged since 1945 as to whether the kiss was spontaneous and genuine, or staged for the camera.
On the right of the photograph is the prow of USS Midway, an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was the largest ship in the world until 1955.
The USS Midway saw action in the Vietnam War, and served as the Persian Gulf flagship in Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
She is now a museum ship, and is permanently moored in San Diego.
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September 1, 1939 -- May 7, 1945. What an ordeal. What a money maker.From my journal: Tues 15 Oct 2002: "On Monday we got up early-- had already purchased train tickets-- from Gare de l'Est to Epernay -> Reims. Then backtrack. [This is wrong. We went from Paris to Rheims, then Epernay, then back to Paris.] Stopped and got off at Reims. Went to see the museum in which Germans surrendered on 5 May 1945 [it was actually 7 May]. Eisenhowerama. Wandered down main drag to BAC [="Big Ass Church" ]. Windy, pleasant. Asked a man where the post office was, got a pleasant response, and understood it actually. JN sampled a sort of hotdog near the train station. A longi-sliced spicy wiener in bread. Horseradish mustard. R [Richard] declined food, should have gotten something. Then on to Epernay--"
But then it would have made finally going to sleep a lot more trouble. Except why are you in my room?
Sightseeing the hidden spots in the mountain hills of Nagasaki in pouring rain was a special experience i will long remember.
NO SURRENDER OF A MAN WITH AMMUNITION and COUNTRY FIRST, SELF LAST proclaim signs exhorting a fighting spirit and selfless devotion to duty of the American Soldier.
Two pre-WWI US Army privates pose with a cart or limber. Man on right wears collar discs on a fold-down collar while one on left appears to have a stand-up collar without discs. Both wear cotton-khaki uniforms and leggings.
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From the FDR series. The Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC is the most varied and interesting of the presidential monuments. It is a rich source of material to exercise your mind's eye. This image began with a photo of one of the many reliefs in a bronze wall designed for "viewing" by the blind.
Taken with my iPhone 4s. Postwork: PS Express > Water my Photo > Scratchcam
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110+ member performed over 11,000 illegal abortions in Chicago
"Those of us who were members of Jane were remarkable only because we chose to act with women's needs as our guide. In doing so we transformed illegal abortions from a dangerous, sordid experience into one that was life affirming + powerful." Lauren Kaplan
Celebrate People's History
Viva Sandino!
General Sandino's six year struggle in the Nicaraguan mountains leading a handful of campesinos and laborers, must be viewed as the result of centuries of foreign domination of the country and of the repeated surrender by the ruling groups to those same foreign powers. Those men who fought bitterly with their machetes and antiquated rifles, who made bombs from empty tin cans filled with rocks and scrap iron, who brought down enemy planes practically with stones, who always maintained high morale in the face of an enemy a hundred times more powerful-they demonstrated something that until the appearance of that popular army had been concealed in the difficult terrain of Latin American history; the hopeful prospect that campesinos, with their own leaders, with tactics forged in the course of the fight, and doctrines arising from the process itself, could organize a successful struggle for national autonomy.
Sergio Ramirez
Augusto Cesar Sandino 1895-1934
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In early April 1865, during the Civil War, Confederate forced marched through the central part of Virginia. They were led by general Robert E Lee. Hot on his tail was Federal forces led by general Ulysses S Grant. Grant was promoted from Brigadier General to Major General and given controll over the Union Army in order to hunt down Robert E Lee and end the war.
On April 9, 1865, these forces met in the little town of Appomattox, Va. Grant sent a letter to Lee asking him to surrender. Lee wrote back saying that he is tired of this war and too many lives have been lost. He would agree to surrender if his demands be met including the pardon of all his men plus the whole Confederate Army. Grant agreed and set up a meet that day. He then had a surrender paper written for Lee to sign.
Later that afternoon, Lee, his general and his army rode up to the town of Appomattox waving white towels meaning they were surrendering and coming unarmed. This was one of the towels that was waved that day when Lee surrendered and led to a chain of activities bringing the Civil War to an end.
The surrendor towel is located at the Appomattox National Park in Appomattox, Va.
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Date: 10 April 1945
Description: German children in Sogel, Germany surrendering to Allied troops during the Second World War.
Photograph by Capt. A.M. Stirton and courtesy of National Archives of Canada, PA-113697.
Accession No.: 980.1.103
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Also painted by Velazquez, the Surrender of Breda is a Baroque painting located in Madrid. The painting shows the dominance of Spain, yet an illusion of reality since the Spanish general is off his horse and refuses the other general to knee.