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Private Ernest Stambash, Co. K, 165th Infantry, 42nd division, receives a cigarette from Miss Anna Rochester, American Red Cross volunteer at Evacuation Hospital No. 6 and 7, at Souilly, Meuse, France, on October 14, 1918.

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Pat Barker, Regeneration: Part Two (Penguin, 2008, p. 83).

[Part of a fictional conversation between Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon in which their ambivalent attitudes to the War are discussed; and how, in spite of the brutality each despises, neither would call himself a pacifist. This is Owen’s explanation. (This is the ninth book in my First World War-related reading series, “Goodbye to All That”.)]

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Germany circa 1946…life goes on

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Finnish soldiers writing letters for they love ones, few hour before the attack.

Pertjärvi, 1942.04.17.

German soldiers during Operation Barbarossa, circa 1941

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Ernest Hemingway, just prior to the Battle of Teruel during the Spanish Civil War, 1937 by Robert Capa.

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mallardaise

The number of young Brits apparently flocking to join Isis has prompted much public soul-searching. “Why are young Muslims angry and disillusioned?” asks the same media that habitually considers hysterical fabrications about Muslims demanding Halal bingo, or whatever, more important than factual reports about Palestinian children being blown to pieces. “What kind of sick glorification are these jihadists seeking?” they wail, while filling the front page with ominous images of “Beatle John” – literally a rock-star nickname – accompanied by text breathlessly recounting his terrifying ruthlessness. “When will the Muslim community do something about this?” they demand, without pausing to consider any potential accountability of their own. The media isn’t to blame, but it does very little to help.

Charlie Brooker “2014 is so horrible, nothing can cheer us up. Not even Simon Cowell with a bucket on his head" The Guardian (via mallardaise)

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Roza Shanina, a 19 year old Soviet sniper who is credited with fifty-nine confirmed WW2 kills. c. 1944

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One of the first shipments of whole blood from the American Red Cross in Nebraska on its way to Korea, 1950

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Margaret Hamilton with a stack of printed output from early versions of software for Apollo 8/11, ca 1967

He had Shelley’s trick of noiselessly vanishing and reappearing. We would be sitting, reading on my only sofa: I would look up and Lawrence was not only not in the room, he was not in the house, he was not in Jerusalem. He was in the train on his way to Egypt.

Ronald Storrs on T.E. Lawrence (via weirdsociology)

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