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Reaching for Rescue, Vietnam. 1968

“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.” – Aldous Huxley.

Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950’s

The 1913 Gettysburg reunion of 53,407 American Civil War vetererns of the Battle of Gettysburg’s 50th anniversary shake hands

Two Civil War veterans from both sides shake hands at Gettysburg – 1913

Out of the approx. 750,000 soldiers that fought for the South, these were the last three surviving Confederate Civil War veterans. Photo taken in 1951

Harlem Hellfighters – Soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, (15th N.Y. National Guard Regiment) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, WWI -1919

American soldiers returning from WWI on the USS Agamemnon, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1918

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses paratroopers on June 5th, the night before D-Day, WWII, 1944

American Paratroopers about to jump into Normandy, June 6 1944

Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, FR. D-Day; June 6th, 1944

D-Day June 6, 1944

Canadian soldiers land on Courseulles Beach in Normandy, on June 6, 1944

Soldier struggling to survive the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944

Soviet sniper Vassili Zaitsev leads 2 sniper students, winter of 1942, Stalingrad

Soviet female snipers

Soviet infantry charge through smoke during the WW2

Soviet snipers train at ranging aircraft

Soviet troops fly the Hammer and Sickle above the Reichstag in Berlin, May, 1945

American soldier taking down a sign from a street named after Adolf Hitler in 1945

American soldier standing in the rubble of The Mounument to the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig Germany, 1945

African American soldier looks pleased to guard captured Nazi German soldiers. April 1945

Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie moves to comfort a stricken comrade after a fierce firefight for Hill 484 during the Vietnam War, 1966

The morning after a long night awaiting a Viet Cong ambush that never came. 40 miles East of Saigon, Vietnam, 1965

Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border. March 1965

Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968

Pinned down by gun fire, a U.S. medic looks over a wounded comrade, Phu Loi, South Vietnam, 1966

Fallen soldier being raised to helicopter in Vietnam War 1966

Newly freed prisoners of war celebrate as their C-141A aircraft lifts off from Hanoi, North Vietnam, on Feb. 12, 1973, during Operation Homecoming

PFC Kyle Hockenberry who lost both legs and his left arm in an IED explosion

Fallen Soldiers Returning Home

“All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.” – The Dalai Lama