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Hissyspit

(45,790 posts)
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 12:28 PM Sep 2012

I showed this photo to my college students this morning as part of a discussion of iconic images... [View all]

And two hours later I started crying.

I don't cry often. I've shown it many times before. Just, some days...



New Orleans after Katrina.

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I'm ashamed to admit I don't recognize this, gateley Sep 2012 #1
It's Katrina. Hissyspit Sep 2012 #2
This would be a great topic for the Sekhmets Daughter Sep 2012 #7
Thanks, Hissy. gateley Sep 2012 #13
Katrina. nt msanthrope Sep 2012 #3
I don't either :-( Sekhmets Daughter Sep 2012 #4
See post #2. Hissyspit Sep 2012 #6
Katrina n/t HangOnKids Sep 2012 #5
Somehow THIS is iconic... Taverner Sep 2012 #8
That's not iconic because it's a staged photo op BanzaiBonnie Sep 2012 #10
It's not iconic to us because we know better Taverner Sep 2012 #11
That doesn't always matter, BanzaiBonnie catbyte Sep 2012 #14
So was the flag-raising on Iwo Jima Spider Jerusalem Sep 2012 #18
There's another image that sill haunts me to this day. myrna minx Sep 2012 #9
. Soylent Brice Sep 2012 #12
This is truly iconic deaniac21 Sep 2012 #15
I show these two next to each other. Hissyspit Sep 2012 #17
heck-of-a-job, Brownie! Raster Sep 2012 #16
Notice the oil in the water slampoet Sep 2012 #19
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