Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[bobo746]

[bobo746]

[bobo746]

[VocalNeal]

^ Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

Don't know but it is heading right towards the World Trade Centre ©Frankie Boyle

[bobo746]

[Latindancer]

ENT reckoned that was a hologram

[Cujo]

^^ Haven't had a good 911 thread for a while.
^ Whatever's happened to your buddy ENT? Hope he's OK.

[Latindancer]

I think he flounced by not applying for parole after being jailed. Now the only person I have to direct my ire at is Willy, and most of the time I have him on Ignore....unless I feel like kicking a dog after a hard day at work. Then I take him off.

[ltnt]

Don't think that was Lincoln bobo, but O.K. anyway...

[Davis Knowlton]

Don't think that was Lincoln bobo, but O.K. anyway...

You looking in the upper right hand quadrant? Or at the guy in the center?

[ltnt]

^Actually both...almost thought the guy in center focal point was Grant for a second. The man on the perimeter is not Lincoln in my opinion...I recall the man in the center but think for some reason he was a public official of some sort?

[ltnt]

^Both but I clicked on the image again to increase size and it apparently "is," Lincoln on the upper right hand quadrant or at least a close facsimile thereof. Looks like a political rally of some sort as the people of import are wearing banners across their torsos...perhaps a debate?

[ltnt]

This is the image that sticks in my mind Davis. Definitely not the one of the man in the right hand quadrant.

[Davis Knowlton]

^Same here. But folks look different in different shots. Plus, he looked taller than the rest...as much as you could tell from the photo.

[Chittychangchang]

[ltnt]

But folks look different in different shots.

The beard doesn't match historically...

[Boon Mee]

Yellow Horse - Yanktonai - 1908

[Boon Mee]

Bill Pawley fears no horse

[rebbu]

Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, taken on March 17, 1973 at Travis Air Force Base in California. The photograph came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and the prevailing sentiment that military personnel and their families could begin a process of healing after enduring the horrors of war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst_of_Joy

[ltnt]

The photograph came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and the prevailing sentiment that military personnel and their families could begin a process of healing after enduring the horrors of war.

Hardly!

[Sumocakewalk]

from wikipedia:

The depicted persons

The photograph depicts United States Air Force Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm being reunited with his family, after spending more than five years in captivity as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Stirm was shot down over Hanoi on October 27, 1967, while leading a flight of F-105s on a bombing mission, and not released until March 14, 1973. The centerpiece of the photograph is Stirm's 15-year-old daughter Lorrie, who is excitedly greeting her father with outstretched arms, as the rest of the family approaches directly behind her.

Despite outward appearances, the reunion was an unhappy one for Stirm. Three days before he arrived in the United States, the same day he was released from captivity, Stirm received a Dear John letter from his wife Loretta informing him that their relationship was over. In 1974 the Stirms divorced and Loretta remarried. After Burst of Joy was announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, all of the family members depicted in the picture received copies. They all display it prominently in their homes, except the Stirm patriarch, who says he cannot bring himself to display the picture.

The person second from the right is Loretta.


from another source, dated 1993:

The joy of this reunion leaps out from the pages of history: Bob Stirm, crisp in his Air Force uniform, was finally home after nearly 5 1/2 years in the prison camps of Vietnam.The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture that captured that very personal, yet most public of moments symbolizes the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, the bittersweet homecoming of 591 American POWs in 1973.

Twenty years later, the picture is very different.

In his home near San Francisco, a Vietnam history book is opened to that page of Stirm's life. He gazes at it.

"I have several copies of the photo," he says, "but I don't display it in the house."

Why? Stirm laughs. He points to the picture, to the tall woman - just outpacing her younger son - dressed in a blue-and-white pleated skirt and blue sweater, sporting a large corsage.

"Because of her," he says simply.

Stirm's anger and bitterness these two decades later seem directed more at the woman in the famous black-and-white photo - his former wife, Loretta - than at the Vietnamese captors who tortured him.

He says he survived the torture, the mock executions, the dread-filled days and nights, so he could return to her, only to be handed a "Dear John" letter by a chaplain upon his release.

"I have changed drastically - forced into a situation where I finally had to grow up," the letter read in part. "Bob, I feel sure that in your heart you know we can't make it together - and it doesn't make sense to be unhappy when you can do something about it. Life is too short."

To Stirm, now 60, it is cruel irony that so public a reunion had so hollow a core.

"It brought a lot of notoriety and publicity to me and, unfortunately, the legal situation that I was going to be faced with, and it was kind of unwelcomed," Stirm says of the photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Sal Veder.

"In some ways, it's hypocritical, because my former wife had abandoned the marriage within a year or so after I was shot down. And she did not even have the honor and integrity to be honest with the kids. She lived a lie. This picture does not show the realities that she had accepted proposals of marriage from three different men. . . . It portrays everybody there was happy to see me."

more here: FAMED PHOTO IS TARNISHED FOR POW WHO CAME HOME | Deseret News

[Boon Mee]

So cute I can bear-ly stand it, but the idea of a bear driving a car does give one paws.

[Sumbitch]

Definitely have one for this.

[Boon Mee]

The USS RECRUIT

"The equipment is that of the up-to-the-minute dreadnought with accommodations on board for day and night life of officers and men." -POPULAR SCIENCE, AUG. 1917



As a recruiting tool the ship was very successful, helping to recruit 25,000 men into the U.S. Navy.

The First World War ended in 1918, and by 1920 the Recruit was no longer needed in Union Square. It was properly decommissioned and dismantled, with the intention of relocating it to Coney Island's Luna Park. This did not happen and the fate of the Recruit is unknown.*



More pics here: http://mashable.com/2015/04/30/uss-recruit/

[VocalNeal]

Now we're talking? A SX150 Silver Special.