David
Wed December 11, 2002 9:43am
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"Osama bin Laden the murd
"Osama bin Laden the murderer and the coward has abandoned Al Qaida. He has abandoned you and run away. Give yourself up and do not die needlessly, you mean nothing to him. Save your families the grief and pain of your death."
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David
Wed December 11, 2002 3:44pm
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"We French workers warn y
"We French workers warn you . . . defeat means slavery, starvation, death." Color poster by Ben Shahn, 1942.
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David
Wed December 11, 2002 4:00pm
Rating: 8
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"This victim of Nazi inhu
"This victim of Nazi inhumanity still rests in the position in which he died, attempting to rise and escape his horrible death. He was one of 150 prisoners savagely burned to death by Nazi SS troops." Sgt. E. R. Allen, Gardelegen, Germany, April 16, 1945.
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David
Wed December 11, 2002 4:33pm
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"The March of Death. Alon
"The March of Death. Along the March [on which] these prisoners were photographed, they have their hands tied behind their backs. The March of Death was about May 1942, from Bataan to Cabanatuan, the prison camp."
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David
Mon January 13, 2003 9:53am
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This Is How You Died (The
Richard R. Yohnka, Pastel on paper, undated. "The figure I draw is the depersonalized soldier, the soldier within, who has suppressed the emotion of the community of war. To me it is impossible to see war as anything but an old habit of thinking, an old frame of mind, and an old male political maneuver. These figures are the vehicle of my interpretation of the moment in Vietnam that deal with the remoteness, transcendence, and finality of life. They are silent screams, ritual destruction, intoxication, insanity, sorrow, and death. They are images of power, but also represent savage men. They are caught between the image of a soldier dehumanized by war and that of a man trapped in a state of raw conflict."
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David
Fri August 5, 2005 10:50am
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King Philip, Metacom, sec
King Philip, Metacom, second son of Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoag, who attained that office himself through the death of his father and elder brother in 1661-62, and to the English was better known as Philip of Pokanoket, or King Philip. He was the most remarkable of all the Indians of New England. For 9 years after his elevation to the chieftaincy, although accused of plotting against the colonists, he seems to have devoted his energies to observation and preparation rather than to overt actions of a warlike nature. He even acknowledged himself the king's subject. But war with the English teas inevitable, and the struggle called King Philip's war (1675-76) broke out, resulting in the practical extermination of the Indians after they had inflicted great losses upon the whites.
The ability of King Philip is seen in the plans he made before the war began, the confederacy he formed, and the havoc lie wrought among the white settlements. Of 90 towns, 52 were attacked and 12 were completely destroyed. The bravery of the Indians was in many cases remarkable. Only treachery among the natives in all probability saved the colonists from extinction.
In the decisive battle, a night attack, at a swamp fortress in Rhode Island, Aug. 12, 1676, the last force of the Indians vas defeated with great slaughter, King Phillip himself being among the slain. His body was subjected to the indignities usual at that time, and his head is said to have been exposed at Plymouth for 20 years. His wife and little son were sold as slaves in the West Indies. Widely divergent estimates of King Philip's character and achievements have been entertained by different authorities, but he can not but be considered a man of marked abilities. Weeden (Ind. Money, 12, 1884) says: "History has male him 'King Philip,' to commemorate the heroism of his life and death. He almost made himself a king by his marvelous energy and statecraft put forth among the New England tribes.
Had the opposing power been a little weaker, he might have founded a temporary kingdom on the ashes of the colonies."
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