The science pics (earthrise, child in womb) are extremely incredible even today. I am glad that there is this intrepid element of humanity - slowly exposing the wonders of the Universe that are far beyond our control or comprehension.
I don't necessarily understand the background or why a few of these were impactful, but the emotions conjured up from some of them are extremely powerful.
For instance, Buchenwald (1945) -
"George Patton's troops when they liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Forty-three thousand people had been murdered there. Patton was so outraged he ordered his men to march German civilians through the camp so they could see with their own eyes what their nation had wrought."
Can you possibly imagine being a person involved with that event? Picture the average German citizen that had been turning a blind eye to what had been happening at their will - it would have been soul crushing (and rightfully so). I don't know much about Patton, but this says to me that he was a wise and just character.
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