These 30 powerful photos are famous and poignant, they will forever be cemented in history. The images that were captured are so intense, they are impossible to be forgotten. They said a picture is worth a thousand words… but it’s impossible to say just how many words these are worth. Prepare to be left speechless...

1. Some parents, likely now in their 70′s, still looking for their missing child.


2.An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers


3. During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head .


4. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943


5. Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009


6. Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012


7.The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888


8.A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunam, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011


9. Protestors place flowers into the rifle barrels of armed officers



10.An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small
Russian town as a monument


11. “Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940


12.A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011.


13. Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives



14. Five-year-old gypsy boy on New Year’s Eve 2006 in the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. It is quite common in St. Jacques for little boys to smoke


15. Sunset on Mars


16. Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory


17.Alcoholic father with his son


18.Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “The Falling Man.”


19.Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of lives during Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgs of the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. He was buried with full honors in 2000


20. Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India


21. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months


22. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009


23.Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt


24. Young man just found out his brother was killed


25.A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994


26.Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral.


27. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)


28. Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.


29.Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber


30. A starving child and missionary



Source:http://www.viralnova.com/30-awesome-photos/

Some thought-provoking pictures mhen! I was hoping to find Rocco Morabito's Pulitzer winning Kiss of Life here tho'

Wonderful picx.....some touching

And this one too "Saigon Execution"by Eddie Adams..

And we shouldn't forget Kevin Carter's "The Vulture and the Starving Child".

Number 12 really touched me

My top three!!

1.. Russain soldier preparing for battle:
For some strange reason, that picture actually got to me deeply. Maybe i died in a battle as a soldier in my past life. I just connected with the picture very very very very deeply and what was going through the soldier's mind at that moment, how he felt and how he saw things in general--- ok i'll stop here! Weird right? . There is just something about that pic i cant explain!

2.. Dog at owners grave:
Everything about the pic got me emotional. It's just amazing. The look on the dog's face made a few tear drops fall to my cheeks. Thank God i wasnt in public sef before people go begin ask "wetin happen na. Bros, person die"

3. Man feeding koala:
I just cant explain it but I actually saw a human giving a fellow human water to drink!

Awwwwwwww *crying*

@Post

Pictures 12, 19, 22, 26 and 30 touched me the most.

These are some memorable, inspiring, motivational, heart-felt & as d OP will say powerful pics we would like 2 see not
"Omotola & Tonto who wore it better"

Everyone would get emotional while viewing these.

The father and son 'before and after' got me



#TeamGOM

they are all so sad. This got me thinking

That dog at the grave of its owner got me.

*sobs*

Hahahaha.... the condom part... look at d face of d man in an helmet.... very funny!

WOW!!! Those images are out of this world.

All of these pictures indeed tell a story of some deep memories! I love d one of d soldier before going to war, d dog at the grave and the father and son after many years

The father and son after 60 years. Wow. 'the child is the father of the man really.

The vulture-boy picture made me have sleepless nights when I first saw it.

Sayin I didn't cry is a very big lie....Gosh its so sad,dat man crying under d rain cos of his ouse,d disasters ...oh my God y do dis things happen? Its so sad ......am so happy 4 d woman who served in iraq and came back home safe 2 her daughter duh!

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That number 16,18 and 26 are so touching!!!am I the only one seeing it?

Rukemi291:

The vulture-boy picture made me have sleepless nights when I first saw it.

dats d saddest pic i've eva seen..gosh!
the photographer went on to commit suicide accordin 2 d site where pic was taken(www. Wtffacts.com)

mayten30: That number 16 and 18 are so touching!!!am I the only one seeing it?

quite tru

Dat no 3 looks kind of RISKILY STUPID
if he had gotten carried away by d flood, he would have been blamed 4 his death!
But kudus to him he made it... D cats owe dier lives 2 him

chimex38:
dats d saddest pic i've eva seen..gosh!
the photographer went on to commit suicide accordin 2 d site where pic was taken(www. Wtffacts.com)

So I heard. The photographer had the opportunity to save the kid and be a true hero. The worst part is nobody knows what later happened to the child...but I think it's the obvious.

Rukemi291:

So I heard. The photographer had the opportunity to save the kid and be a true hero. The worst part is nobody knows what later happened to the child...but I think it's the obvious.

eya.....so sad

No. 30.

I'm all emotional right now..........The world is just a place called "That Place"

These ones should add up to the list, 34 and 35. Japanese children found in the outskirts of Hiroshima after US forces dropped the atomic bomb.

11. “Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940

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