Poignant Pictures

[skinnydipper]

Not trying to dumb-down this thread but this picture always brings tears to my eyes

I think those ratings on the left of the card are percentages

[jonthefox]

I cannot for one second imagine what was going through this mans mind.

[leicsmac]

I cannot for one second imagine what was going through this mans mind.

Ummm...in a few seconds, the pavement.

(I know, I'm going to Hell. Sorry. )

[leicsmac]

On a more serious note, I always found this picture hugely symbolic:

[hairy]

Not as sensitive as ones already posted, but this is still pretty poignant in my eyes...

They are not the same arch. The second is from Otsuchi.

[The People's Hero]

Forgive my ignorance Hairy, but whats that picture all about please?

[GLC]

9/11

Shoes from Auschwitz

[Zingari]

When I see photos like this I tend to ask "Who's the boss and who's the bitch"

[stripeyfox]

[SOCCERROO FOX]

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[cambridgefox]

[StanSP]

In a time of so much uproar and protest and anger, this was somewhat refreshing to see from last Feb (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353330/Egypt-protests-Christians-join-hands-protect-Muslims-pray-Cairo-protests.html)

Berlin wall....

[Fox92]

[StanSP]

The whole funeral had me welling up, but for some reason as Gone Too Soon was being sung by Usher, I burst out in tears as he walked down to MJ's coffin. The whole thing was pretty poignant, really. Death of a true legend of music.

[Amin]

The whole funeral had me welling up, but for some reason as Gone Too Soon was being sung by Usher, I burst out in tears as he walked down to MJ's coffin. The whole thing was pretty poignant, really. Death of a true legend of music.

Tbf, the song+music video itself is fairly tear inducing.

[StanSP]

Tbf, the song+music video itself is fairly tear inducing.

Suppose, but it got to me much more than previous times. Just the emphasis of the occasion I guess.

[Trav Le Bleu]

I'm not a great one for checking the news - and additionally am someone who is quick to knows news corporations and the likes of the BBC for the dumbed down and sometimes simply inaccurate or misleading, sensationalised news reporting BUT since our baby was born yesterday, I thought I'd check out the news stories and just try to create that association in my mind - what WAS happening when Dylan was born?

Anyway, thats by the by, the point was I chanced across this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...ctures-17095519

I've always struggled with aspects of the Holocaust. I studied history at university and remain a keen historian although now it really is simply a hobby or interest and I'm mainly concerned with local history - or other very specific areas. The Holocaust is something I studied in my second year at university and I can remember so much of what I read etc very vividly. Its a complete one off in so many ways (yes, I know that 'ethnic cleansing - HORRID PHRASE - and racial/national/religion-based genocide etc is hardly rare through our times, in fact, its probably all part of the human condition) but so much about it, the complete secrecy around it, the complete shock for those who discovered the sites... I went to the exhibit at the Imperial War Museum in London when they had a whole floor dedicated to the subject and it genuinely had me in tears most of the way round. I struggle to empathise with a lot of victims in history but I defy anyone to go round that exhibit and feel nothing. Humans, often probably quite decent (otherwise) Nazi officials facilitating that occurring.

I'm not posting to judge those who were involved for whatever reason - and there are so many things to consider - but I just wanted to bring this to a wider audience. The photos brought make so much of what I'd studied and thought about before. These places are still there and thats the thing with history, its locative. Everything happens somewhere. Will those landscapes ever be anything else? Could they be? Will people ever live there? Even if they did, that, I'm afraid is a legacy which will outlive any block of flats, entertainment multiplex etc.

Also - well done to the BBC for giving this the time of day.

For so many reasons, Auschwitz and similar deathcamps/concentration camps and their victims, run by the Nazis and anyone else for that matter, should never be allowed to be forgotten.

Congrats on the Mini-TPH.

You're being very profound now you're a daddy.

[Zingari]

Congrats on the Mini-TPH.

You're being very profound now you're a daddy.

yes it sounds like making junior was 30 seconds well spent

[Saxondale]

Costa Condordia

[hairy]

Forgive my ignorance Hairy, but whats that picture all about please?

Its a famous picture taken during the miners strike

[Tom17LCFC]

That one always gets to me for some reason.

Another related to 9/11:

[Smudge]

[Guest Bilo]

[MikeyT]

Being interested in both World Wars, this photo springs to mind as does many of the sickening photos from the concentration camps, especially Auschwitz.

Entitled "The Last Jew in Vinnitsa". Ukraine 1941.

[FuriousFox46]

I can't find it anywhere but there was a picture from The Sun of Michael Jackson, just after he died 'waving to his fans' as he rehearsed for his This Is It tour.

The headline was a quote from him that said; "I'm one of the loneliest people on this Earth, I cry sometimes because it hurts."

I just thought that contrast of happiness from the picture and his inner despair was haunting and a sad reflection on how the media killed one of the world's greatest ever talents.