#world war ll

[histrorybygosh]

North American P-51 Mustang

Powerplant: 1 x Packard V-1650-7 Merlin 12 cylinder liquid cooled engine, 1,490 hp (Built under license from Rolls Royce.)

Cruise speed: 362mph

Armament: 6 x .50 caliber AN/M2 Browning machine guns

#p 51 mustang #fighter plane #world war ll

[zoeandsubalovephotog]

Venice 1940

Source: MessyNessyChic on Pinterest

#gas masks #gas mask #gas masks in Europe #world war ll #history of venice #world history #european history #sepia photography

[officialjanerusselltribute]

Jane Russell and the boys, circa 1943. “Hi Fellahs!”

#jane russell #janerussell #hollywoodicon #classicmoviestars #classic movie stars #howard hughes #worldwar2 #world war ll #ww2 #pin up girl

[milenaolesinska]

President AndrzejDuda: During World War II in Warsaw, when fighting took place here, the Germans ruthlessly murdered civilians in the capital. Unfortunately, the Russian aggression against Ukraine is similarly ruthless today

#warsaw uprising #warsaw #poland #world war ll #german #german war #help for ukraine #russia ukraine war #ukraine #russian nazism #russian imperialism

[grapesodadarkchocolate]

Nature speaks-unhesitatingly

January 30, 2024

The beauty about a love offered to help one to shine. Allowing both the gift of shining brighter because of each another. When the walls are dropped, only then, can this happen. — me

Dearest Richard,

There is something profound about writing to you in the presence of this year as I also reflect back onto what transpired some eighty years ago. Not something I experienced but more what I carry. Finding my heart is perpetually storming with questions. Never abated or at a loss for more. The relevancy of your story during this point in time continues to talk to me. The necessity of allowing for an openness, a way to expand the story and not simply use only the specifics at hand. For the challenge is that I have a lot of bits and pieces of information scattered in my mind. It is about what I remember when mom spoke of you. What other family members have since offered. What was saved and kept until I arrived to pull it together in to one cache of artifacts. My historical research has led me to step more tightly into what may have been your everyday specifics. Wanting to know you more I guess is the pull. Being authentic in the process. Naming what seeks to be spoken. It is there—I know. Continuing to unfurl what it is you want shared. 

Here we go. Pulling out more tissues before I proceed on to the next piece of correspondence in the line up. How to continue on this path as additional military paperwork gets into the mix. I don’t know how mom and your dad did it. The day is moving along and then another crash to the floor when they open their mail. A heart sinking into the floral cushioned chair by the window. Images that rise up in my mind as I assume their emotions grab hold, tapping them on the shoulder or simply socking them in the gut. 

Flipping to this next page in your three ringed binder. The one that is holding so much of your story. Learning as I unravel more. Your Purple Heart will soon be arriving in the mail, this September 2nd, 1948 letter informs me. Or maybe it came by special delivery. I don’t rightly know but what I do know is that mom asked over and again, more to the wind than to anyone in particular, “What should I do with Richard’s Purple Heart?” It would be said in seemingly random moments. They may have seemed random to me but I would guess for mom, the fact that you were always with her, it may not have felt random at all. I am now holding that question for dear Martha Jane. Not certain about the practical answer but more the part that says you are significant and you need to be remembered. Your story is important. I will name what I can. It isn’t so much a predictable beginning and a quick end kind of story that I initially imagined it would be. It is about pulling up and out from the past what can be gleaned. What does your story teach me? Your seemingly simple single story is so much more than that. Mom’s love for you and the power that love continues to hold in place moves the narrative along.

Thank you for the love you offered to my mom. It still speaks. 

Listening with intention,

Your Niece 💜

#letters to richard #story #grief and loss #world war ll #purple heart medal

[sspacegodd]

SMUG FACT: During World War II, the dome of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, was covered in bamboo scaffolding to disguise it from enemy bombers.

#smug fact #taj mahal #world war ll

[worldsfinestpowercouple]

Just something from the Mailbox yesterday.

#dc comics #batman #dccomics #superman #dcu #batharley #batquinn #supergirl woman of tomorrow #batman white knight #batman curse of the white knight #Harley Quinn #joker #tomorrowverse #the tomorrowverse #justice league society world war ll #green lantern beware my power #superman man of tomorrow

[adriana4everoficial]

personajes para mi siguiente projecto

alice the tiny submarine of ll world war 🛳 :iconadriana4ever: arte original by adriana garza hernandez

adriana4ever #alicethetinysubmarine

alicethetinysubmarineofllworldwar

alicethetinysubmarineofllworldwarcharacters

myart

#adriana4ever #my art #alice the tiny submarine of ll world war #alice the tiny submarine of ll world war characters #alice the tiny submarine #general thomas #federico

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

lies on the floor and stares at the ceiling about how lorien and the garde kids are the ultimate example of 'you inherit your parents' trauma but you will never fully understand it'

#lorien legacies #LL loric #LL tag #on a number of levels tbh; ranging from the literal as in 'my mentor-parent came from a dead world and the only glimpses i get of it' #'and what happened to it; are through their eyes; and they are not likely to be very forthcoming about most of it' #'especially their own issues and traumas both before the war and after' #to 'lorien had a lot of really fucked up shit and long-reaching societal traumas going on long before the war' #'whether they admitted something was a trauma or not (from what we see; usually not lmao)' #'and like. they're gone now. their records are gone. we will never have even a tenth of the full context' #'and one of the only two living direct sources we have for all this is inclined to lie about it' #'how do we even begin to make sense of the bearing their past actions have on what's happening now' #'whether The Interplanetary Political Landscape in General' #'or on the smaller scale of how our lost culture shaped our individual traumas and abuse' #'when we have so little context for or ability to verify what they even *did*' #'how *relevant* is it. because in a lot of ways it IS relevant. but also what does it mean to hold them accountable when they're *gone*' #there's honestly so many other places to emphasize this theme too; i could go on many long infodumps about how this applies to the mogs #but also one of the main characters; who is fully a human; inherits his dad's trauma which *his dad himself doesn't even remember* #there's so much to explore here and it is all very sad rolls around kicking my feet

[histrorybygosh]

Lockheed P-38 Lightning

#p-38 #fighter plane #lockheed #world war ll #p 38 lightning

[ethotv-archived]

no you need to give me 5 minutes to process elysian fields as a ll scott song. lying here amomg the flowers i can rest my weary bones. lying here bahted in sunshine i have found where i shall lie i have found my hearts last calling elysian fields where i can die...

#yes it is a song about a person escapimg their dystopian world by dying alone next to the grave of their wife #who was the first person in millenia to die a true death. something they wanted to give to other people as a form of rebellion #but they were disheartened by years of war and suffering under the city. and the only thing left for them to do was escape alone. #but. its also a ll scott song to me

[tsbongoquotes]

Damals konnte man halt als einzelner Mensch noch wirklich was bewegen!

LL über den Mord an Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand 1914, das erste Opfer der Cancel Culture

#LL says #world war one #cancel culture

[milenaolesinska]

Today is the 79th anniversary of the rebellion in Treblinka. The photo shows Samuel Willenberg, a 1939 soldier. Imprisoned by the Germans in the Treblinka camp. He participated in the rebellion in 1943. After escaping from the camp, he was active in the underground. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising. Knight of the Virtuti Militari.Memory!

#samuel wilenberg #solider #rebelion #treblinka #war #german war #world war ll #warsaw uprising #israeli sculptor

[grapesodadarkchocolate]

Spring- Welcome Back

January 23, 2024

Stories: “They are the currency of human interchange, the net we cast to capture fugitive truths and the darting rabbits of emotion.” — Daniel Taylor

Dearest Richard,

I think what feels so essential to me is to keep your story moving. Not so much within the confines of my own understanding but more within the complexities of what is offered. The release that seeks to go beyond what is presently availed to me. Continuing to piece together more of the story through all that is being shared, learned, and better understood. Not having it rest in stagnate waters. I might encounter dead ends or that is how it might appear in the moment. 

But as I realize all stories are connected I am not always certain that an end has arrived. It may have stalled. It may need to jump the fence or newly developed technology can unravel some of the snag, but more often than not, taking the risk of naming what is known at the moment needs to happen. Trusting the process has a direction and a mission. Staying with the heart of the story and it will continue its unfolding. Naming what is presently noted and allowing the rest to arrive when it needs to. Remaining with it and delighting in all of its twists and turns. Releasing it to the larger world as so many stories seek to be delivered. Allowing more souls to be witness to the gravity of what is seeking to be named. 

The fall out is part of the ever after. Uncompromising in the time it takes or the hoops that must be jumped through. That is what I continue to learn. Not relenting or terminating what is sought. The light is green and it is time to go further down the road. Naming it more as I may feel it than having it fully seen and complete. 

You are on my mind and in my heart—always.

Love from me to you,

Your Niece ❤️

Related read: “His father never spoke of WWII. His flight logs told the story for him” by Claire Barrett, Yahoo! News: Pincus Mansfield, April 15, 2024

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Nerstrand State Park, my favorite spot to search for Spring

#letters to richard #world war ll #grief and loss #story #spring flowers

[ry3breadl0rd]

some titles uncle rick deprived us of

”I Fall To My Death (Again)” for the fall into tartarus

“I Get Mugged by Monsters” that one chapter where leo’s tool belt gets stolen

“Jason Meets his Brother” hercules chapter

“I Obtain A Death Ray” the sphere thing

“Leo Makes a Great First Impression” when he blows up new rome

“I Scare Some Pirates With An Unofficial Sponsorship” that chapter where percy scares off the pirates with diet coke

“A Spider Hates My Mom” annabeth at any point with arachne ngl

“Scrawny Is The New Sizzling Hot” leo+hazel with narcissus

“We Get Slapped to New York” zeus smacking the argo ll to new york

“Nyx Gives Us A Tour” when they convince nyx to not murder them immediately by pretending they’re tourists

“My Evil Great-Grand Mother Wakes Up” self explanatory i hope

“Hazel Orders A Horse From Amazon” hazel meets arion

“I Get Blasted Out Of This World” leo goes to ogygia

“Fleecy Does Us A Solid” when they meet iris

“I Tame A Dragon” leo with argo

“I Vaporize Some Old Ladies” first chapter of son

“I Give My Dad Some Decor Tips” nico and hades conversation

“Piper Talks Her Boyfriend To Life” when piper charm speaks jason back to life

“I Play Roulette With A Blind Man” when percy drinks the gorgons blood

“Piper Sees Dead People (In Her Knife)” i might be remembering wrong but it’s that one where they try to trick piper by showing her how her friends were doing in her knife, like trying to convince her they were all dead

“We Use Adidas To Summon A Goddess” nike chapter

“Mudman, Hazel, and Frank Get Brunch” when they get to alaska

“I Learn The Power Of Positivity” percy and misery

“We Meet A Cool Girl (Literally)” khione chapter

“I’m Leo. You Killed My Mother. It’s My Turn” based on the funny comment:) it’s for when leo blows up gaea

“My Nosebleed Wakes Up My Great-Grandma” when gaea wakes up

“Mr. D Hates Ballet” when he helps percy and jason against the twin giants

“Frank Gets A Blast To The Past” when hazel shares her past with him

“Frank Sets Himself On Fire” with the firewood and freeing thatanos

“I Got A Girlfriend?” jason first chapter

”Why Did It Have To Be Poison?” that chapter with polybotes

“Jason Becomes The Oldest Demigod!” old man jason

“Game Night Goes Too Far” war games in son

“The World Hates Us, Literally” hoh when they’re low key attacked by like everything

“We Traumatize Frank” when percabeth gets caught together

“Lions, and Tigers, and Frank, Oh My!” when frank unlocks his shapeshifting stuff

“I Aquire a Misfortune Cookie” i might be delulu but didn’t nemesis omfg i knew that why did i put nike give leo a fortune cookie to open if he needed help?? but price would not be fun

“The Law is On My Side For Once” percy and terminus vs polybotes

“Being A Dumb Blonde Has Its Perks” annabeth when she drops the knife that one chapter

#heroes of olympus #percy jackson #piper mclean #nico di angelo #hazel levesque #frank zhang #annabeth chase #jason grace #leo valdez #headcanon #demigods #chapter

[smilingwithfangs]

you’re not antisemitic, but you dont have any problem with Jordan being on what was once the British Palestine. you’re not antisemitic, but you comment “free Palestine” on every jewish post you see. you’re not antisemitic, but aljazeera is your only source of information. You’re not antisemitic, but you point at the biggest group of jewish people who believe Palestinian ethnic cleansing will come from god one day, and say it’s okay to make your claims because they support it currently. you’re not violently pushing your agenda, but you do comment on every post of hair covering that they are stealing from or must convert to islam.

you’re not violently pushing your agenda, but you dont let other keep or form their own opinions. you’re not violently pushing your agenda, but let me remind you that if you’re at a march and there’s a nazi flag raised, you're at a nazi march.

if you truly believe all israeli and zionist people hate all Palestinians and wish for their death, you should find some humanity in yourself, and apply it to your critical thinking and to how you picture jews and israeli people. To be honest, I’ve met some outright outrageous people, who do believe so, but they will make infinitely less difference in the world than all those i know who wish for peace, safety and statehood for Palestinians. That’s because all those who want this war to be over, and changes to be made are far more reasonable, coherent and critical than those who want otherwise, and those who believe all of the jews and zionists in the world want otherwise. Of all the jewish, muslim or Arabic people i met while traveling all over Israel, none were as aggressive, dogmatic or self serious as half the people on this website. If you feel comfortable telling someone to k*ll them selves over an opinion, info or understanding that you do not share, ask yourself what would your mother say, and go for a walk. Because in the grand scheme of things, your discussion wont make a difference, itll just be bullet points on your bad karma.

#jumblr #palestine #free palestine #free palestine from hamas