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Two rebel soldiers in Syria guard their sniper’s nest in the Karmel Jabl neighborhood of Aleppo as light streams through more than a dozen holes made by bullets and shrapnel in the tin wall behind them. The dust from more than one hundred days of shelling, bombing and firefights hung in the air. Karmel Jabl is strategically important because of its proximity to the main road that separates several of the main battlegrounds in the city. Both sides (the Free Syria Army and the regime) rely heavily on snipers in a cat and mouse game along Aleppo’s frontlines. (Photo taken October 18, 2012) Via Pulitzer.org
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Former Taliban militants attend a ceremony with the Afghan government after handing over their weapons in Herat, on February 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hoshimi)
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rhea137: Five kamikaze pilots playing with a puppy, May 26, 1945, Bansei Air Base, Fukiagehama, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan Photo shows Corporal Yukio Araki (age 17 years old) holding a puppy with four other young men (age 18 and years old) of the 72nd Shinbu Corps around him. An Asahi Shimbun cameraman took this photo on the day before the departure of the 72nd Shinbu Corps from Bansei Air Base for their Kamikaze (Divine Wind) mission in Okinawa. Yukio Araki died at the age of 17 years and 2 months in a suicide attack on American ships near Okinawa on May 27, 1945. The concept of purity was something that came from Isao and entered deeply into the minds and hearts of the other two. He had composed a motto, “Learn from the purity of the League of the Divine Wind,” which had become the motto of their group. Purity, a concept that recalled flowers, the piquant mint taste of a mouthwash, a child clinging to its mother’s gentle breast, was something that joined all these directly to the concept of blood, the concept of swords cutting down iniquitous men, the concept of blades slashing down through the shoulder to spray the air with blood. And to the concept of seppuku. The moment that a samurai “fell like the cherry blossoms,” his blood-smeared corpse became at once like fragrant cherry blossoms. The concept of purity, then, could alter to the contrary with arbitrary swiftness. And so purity was the stuff of poetry. For Isao, to die purely seemed easy. But what about laughing purely? How to be pure in all respects was a problem that disturbed him. No matter how tight a rein he kept upon his emotions, there were times when some trivial thing would arise to make him laugh. Once, for example, he had laughed at a puppy frolicking at the side of the road, with a woman’s high-heeled shoe, of all things, in its mouth. It was the kind of laugh that he preferred others not to see. “Do you know how to get to the Lieutenant’s place?” “Trust me. I’ll get you both there.” “I wonder what the Lieutenant is really like.” Isao spoke up: “I think he is someone who will give us a chance to die.” YUKIO MISHIMA What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. KOBAYASHI ISSA March 27, 1912: Before the World Wars, Japan sent thousands of cherry trees to Washington, D.C., as a gesture of friendship. They were planted 101 years ago and continue to bloom today. As an afterimage, the sky over Washington, D.C. on March 27, 2013:
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A Syrian rebel operates a homemade tank with a knock-off Playstation controller. Via Metro
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