Moved you to any emotion, as long as it was significant enough for you to be permanently marked by it. I suppose extremely moved is more appropriate as there are too many to select one… Ill start.
In the midst of my narcissistic, self-centered, wild youth; when I saw this image, it made my very hard heart very soft.
Background on the Photographer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
I refuse to post it, but the photo of Jack The Ripper’s last victim (Mary Jane Kelly) is enough to horrify even someone who doesn’t consider themselves squeamish. Luckily the photo is black and white or I don’t think I could have looked at it without throwing up.
"They say that a dog is a man’s best friend, and for Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson, 35, and his beloved and loyal dog Hawkeye, not even death could break this powerful bond… "
Major Bieger and Farah by Michael Yon
(Photo reproduced with Michael Yon’s permission http://www.michaelyon-online.com)
Our Pastor spoke about this photo and the history of it last week. Very emotional moment.
I was unfamiliar with it until then. Truly an awful moment in time.
The most life changing thing I have ever seen where these photos and those like them.
The actual footage was worse.
This one:
Katherine Cathey by gvincent1, on Flickr
When I saw the threat title this is the photo that came to mind immediately.
That one, the dog one and this one.
The 09/11 ones and the Michael Yon one of the soldier holding the little wounded kid are the ones that came to my mind.
Steyr,
Same here. I can’t describe how those pictures of the planes before and during impact and the people jumping make me feel every time I see them. It goes far deeper than any description.
On that Tuesday of 11 September 01 I was sitting in a waiting room with 5 smaller offices surrounding that waiting room with a TV facing myself and others. Upon the impact of the first plane a guy who was wearing a Marine Corps uniform came out of one of the offices and jokingly made the comment that the Air Force can’t fly planes for sh$t. Everyone laughed. After the second impact the laughing ceased that day.
I was in Jacksonville, FL. at the MEPS station and was trying to get my initial enlistment switched from 3rd I.D. to the 82nd. After the second plane hit for the rest of the day the place was in lock down. No one went in or out. Most of us just stared at the TV for the rest of our time there knowing we signed up for service the same day an unknown enemy declared war on us. Those images and feelings of that day and others with me will forever be burned into memory.
-Jax
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Kevin was treated VERY badly over that shot. RIP:(
I will always remember 9/11, where I was and what was going on that day. The images of that day will always be burned into my memory.
Agreed. I’ve detested Mohammedans since Nov.4, 1979, but this REALLY sealed it for me. If they ALL fell off the face of the earth overnight, not only would they NOT be missed - we’d have a better planet in this pleasant exchange. :mad:
The Challenger explosion. I was just a kid when it happened but I was in tears all day it seems. For years after if the tv ever replayed the explosion I would turn my head. I just couldn’t watch it.
Before that day I never TRULY understood my Grandfathers generation and their visceral hatred of the Japanese for Pearl Harbor. While I would have enjoyed a few more years with my Grandfather, 9-11 was so horrible I’m thankful he wasn’t still alive to see it.
Nobody should have to go through something like that twice.
As if the event wasn’t bad enough, recently I was watching a documentary and learned that everyone actually survived the explosion of Challenger. They died in the fall, every one of them presumably unconscious.
I didn’t even consider that such a thing would be possible. It’s after the fact second guessing but if they had some kind of automatic parachute we might have saved some of the crew. Of course as we would learn, the entire event was preventable.
Could’ve been prevented for sure. Morton Thiokol was the manufacturer of the o-ring seal that failed on the SRB. NASA had been aware of a design flaw in the seal since the late seventies.
Everytime it crosses my mind I pray they were all unconscious during the fall.
I’ll never forget the line right before it happened, “Going throttle up”.
-Jax