interesting pics in history

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  1. TheBlackGuy

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    Got chills...
     
  2. RalfBully

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    Is this the Lone Survivor story? It's been a few years since I read the book.
     
  3. Owsley

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    Yes. Danny Dietz is the only member of Luttrell's team not pictured.

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    Here is Danny's statue in his hometown of Littleton, CO. Hard to believe people protested the statue being erected (claiming it promoted violence, etc.)

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  5. bignate50

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    Off topic but why are special forces allowed to grow out their facial hair??
     
  6. UODuck69

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    4 Original Seals (Murphy, Axelson, Dietz, Luttrell sent in on a capture/kill of a Afghan Taliban leader. They were compromised by Goat Herders, a choice was made not to kill the Herders but release them, after which they were set upon by a large Taliban force (herders gave them up?), after which there was a firefight. Called in 10 copters, in which one was shot down, 16 were killed in the crash including 8 more Seals. Of the original 4 only Luttrell survived, having crawled miles to safety and being taken in by friendlies.
     
  7. JohnCocktoston

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    Pretty sure they earned that right
     
  8. duc15

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    surprised this one wasn't posted yet
     
  9. bignate50

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    Ya I don't care just wondering. Don't you have to be clean shaven for a gas mask to properly seal on your face??
     
  10. UODuck69

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    A more personal one

    All the guys involved in the picture have returned home safely. Pic is from a night time IED removal, guy waving the flag disarmed it and is waving the all is OK sign.

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  11. Roisin Dubh

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    I tried to find really important "turning-point"-style pictures.

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    Not a picture, but a whole war ended up leading to Israel's creation, so that's hard to capture in an image. We've always lived in a chaotic world, but the creation of Israel has had a huge and lasting impact.

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    The Gutenberg Bible.

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    Martin Luther's 95 Theses.
     
  12. Witness337

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    was thinking the same thing before i posted it couldnt believe id gone through all of them with nothing from 9/11
     
  13. Bigzig06

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    Yeah, but the only gas I experienced in Afghanistan was after taco night at the chow hall. Nothing worse than Indians (dots not feathers) who work for a European contractor on a multi-national base trying to make Mexican food.
     
  14. dcon79

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    Marine is injured trying to disable a third bomb set up by Iraqi insurgents after he successfully disarmed the first two. After realizing he was fine, this was his response.

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  15. bags

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    so they say, but there are muslims and sikhs in the military with beards now. Special Forces guys are allowed to have beards to help hide their identity and military status. It helps blend in and in some areas of Afghan our regular Army have been allowed to grow beards to help with the relations w/the natives.
     
  16. Tricky Gator

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  17. Dexter Moser

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  18. EEVol

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    special forces guys are tasked with winning the 'hearts and minds' of the locals of the countries their fighting in. in this case, they're allowed to tear their uniforms and grow facial hair to help fit in. i am in school with an older guy who's ex-ranger, ex-army special forces [ true american, imo :usasmug: ] and he's shown me pictures of these guys riding horses thru the country side with friendly war lords.
     
  19. Dexter Moser

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  20. Mr. Bean

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    damn. forgot about the elian gonzalez pick.
     
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  25. Dexter Moser

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    NOT the bible

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  26. UODuck69

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    Raise your Booth with, a

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    Seriously...the birth of cool:
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    Katrina, hours before it it hit NOLA
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    Covering Ronald Reagan, seconds after attempted assassination(full video here]):
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  29. Coach Bombay

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    President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the first pitch, opening day, 1916

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  30. Coach Bombay

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  31. The Banks

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    crazy how Kim Jong Il just shuts off the power in N Korea at night
     
  32. Dexter Moser

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    % of American adults who can find N. Korea on a World Map? > 40%?
     
  33. kentucky_dawg

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    Curious because I really don't know. But why did LBJ have Kennedy's wife there when he was sworn in?
     
  34. Coach Bombay

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  35. Jam-I-Am

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    My dad and Chicago White Sox manager Jimmy Dykes in 1945. My uncle was a freelance photographer in Chicago back in the 1930s until the 1950s.

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  36. The Banks

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    proud to be one of the few
    gotta join the mile high club once you the potus
     
  37. Coach Bombay

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    Concentration Camps

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  38. UODuck69

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    Count me as one that can, spent 6 months 3 miles from there, there other 6, 15.
     
  39. Coach Bombay

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    Nazi Germany

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  41. BigBaconBob

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    the guy who took the bullet, Tim McCarthy, is the police chief of my hometown, grew up down the street from him and his hot ass daughter /lookatme
     
  42. Llama

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    During the Northeast blackouts in 2003

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    July 4th, 1996 as President Thomas J. Whitmore makes his famous speech to the pilots before the aliens attacked Area 51 and their shields were down.
     
  43. STEVE HOLT!!!

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    The Lone Survivor pics tear me up...

    I balled like a baby reading that book. So fucking powerful.
     
  44. OopsPowSurprise

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    She was on AF1 flying back to Washington after and they did the swear in with her there because she wanted the press to see her covered in blood. What's crazy me is that she was wearing the same shit he got shot in for a while. She was in shock for a lot of it, but also kind of calm for the purpose of keeping the US sane at the moment
     
  45. Long_John_Holmes

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    SIAP:

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    First black woman to win a best actress Oscar:

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  46. * J Y *

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    hehe
     
  47. elitohakeem

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    Tsar Nicholas and Alexandria..nice..no one really knew what happened to them until after the collapse of the soviet union