[bellydancinb]

Poor guy doesn't want to die there.. alone..

[TheJewishYeti]

Kind of morbid of me, but they're standing in front of a "carniceria" or "meat market".

[icheerthebull]

4 June 1962. Navy chaplain Luis Padillo was walking around giving last rites to dying soldiers as sniper fire surrounded him. A wounded soldier pulled himself up by linging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. Hector Rondón Lovera, who had to lie flat to avoid getting shot, later said that he was unsure how he managed to take this picture. [See all pictures he took that day]. Norman Rockwell eeriely used this photograph as a template for his Southern Justice painting, “Murder in Mississippi“.

It was taken in Puerto Cabello Naval Base, Venezuela, the city of 80,000 beside the nation’s largest naval base 75 miles west of the capital Caracas . Venezuela’s constitution was only a year old in 1962, but already there have been two attempts to overthrow the government. A third came in June 1962, when Puerto Cabello became the scene of one of the bitterest fighting in modern Venezuelan history, now known as the Porteñazo.. The bloody struggle between government forces and guerrilla rebels in the naval base who had the support of the residents of Puerto Cabello. Hector Rondon, who was in Caracas, travelled sixy miles to arrive just in time to see government tanks rolling into the town. Official casualty figures for the military were 47 dead, 89 wounded. But unofficial estimates put the toll, including civilians, at more than 300.

all the photos from the set here
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=327f0...D77ED257ED!104

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by ReiseReise ↗

pardon me if i'm being insensitive but it almost looks like it is a kinda awkward moment for the priest

Of course it must be, awkward in the fact he cannot help or doesn't know what to do

[luton loyal]

[PTSD Is My Life]

The sniper is a weapon of terror just as missiles and mortars are....why? because you don't know its coming and when it hits its too late and you just do not know when or when you are likely to be picked off.

With snipers it is often the sheer shock and lack of understanding of what has happened that spreads fear into both victim and observers.

[THELORDABORTION]

that makes me a saaaaad panda

[AVo]

That is a very powerful picture, few things stop me in my tracks around here.