What a picture!!! I was in Rome for 12 hours once. Iberia air was on strike so we were transferred to Altalia air with a 12 hr layover.... Priest we were with studied in Rome and new the way from the airport to the Vatican... so cool.
That's a very nice story. Glad it all came right in the end and you got to see the Eternal City.. must of been something very special. A memory to savour. P.S For anyone a bit confused Infant, is referring to the image of St. Peter's Square, Vatican City on the previous page of this thread.. God forbid its the first image in this third part.. Tourist: what's that? is that a lion.. gulp! save me.. save me?! O' Seamus thee Guide: Ah.. worry not ye of little faith! Tourist: nuge.. nuge! but.. but.. is getting closer Seamus... later on that day Tourist: 'ah bless me Irish soul the lion went away.. phaw!' Now.. emm.. Seamus.. Seamus... Seamus! ...Seamus!! Ye of little faith! Oh Seamus
Wait For Me Daddy. BC Regiment, World War II, 1940 "Bernard, the little boy in the photo broke free from his mother’s grasp and ran towards his father, Pte. Jack Bernard as he marched down 8th Street." "Bernard, now aged 79. Revisiting the scene, he says he can still recall the day he made a break for it - and his mother’s emotions. “She was pretty upset because I guess over here the soldiers were all milling around and everybody was saying goodbye — and then they were heading for the ship"
"6 year old orphan from Austria after being given his first pair of new shoes by the American Red Cross in 1946."
"A woman pleads to a line of riot police officers after falling to her knees near the Cabinet of Ministers building in Kiev."
"Violinist, Nancy Dinovo, cries while playing during a service at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver for the September 11 victims."