Let's learn from history<>Archive Pictures Which Had A Meaning..

[Shahzad Shameem]

From: Dr. Ashraf Abbasi <drashra...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sep 2, 2009 7:08 PM
Subject: HPC Let's learn from history<>Archive Pictures Which Had A Meaning..

Pictures Which Had A Meaning...

Very interesting and heart touching!

1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School
in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students
admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the
harassments after 4 days.

January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader
Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns
himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against
priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was
burning.

1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam
in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietcong soldier.

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots a
young man,
whom he suspects to be a Viet Cong soldier..

1973. A few seconds before Chile 's elected president Salvador Allende
is dead during the coup.

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionary.

February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the
Parliament building in Spain .
The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.

1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon .

1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for
his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting
the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for
democratic reforms.

1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to
have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.

1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola .

2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral
in Pakistan .

2002. Soldiers and villagers in IRan are digging graves for the
victims of the earthquake.
A kid holds his father's pants before he is buried.

2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.
This life is a great puzzle, and survival is a great mystery!!!
We have food, clothes, shelter, freedom, safety, some money, and friends
and still we are fighting , deceiving our friends, relatives and ourselves
for small personal gains.....
Think....
Are those reasons big enough than these ??????

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Ashraf M. Abbasi, PhD.
Ambassador at Large P Think before you print! Save energy and paper.
President: 2003-2005 Chairman-Presidents Council: 2005-2007 Chairman
Advisory Council: 2007-2009

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With Best Regards & Wishes.
Do Take Care Of Your Self,

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