These 28 Incredible Photos Are Some Of The Most Powerful Images In History

17. The Bolivian government poses with the body of Che Guevara.

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According to legend, the revolutionary’s last words were, “Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.” How right he was.

Decades later, he’s still an icon.

 

18. A prisoner of war returns home.

Released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., as he returns home from the Vietnam War, on March 17, 1973.

Hard to reconcile the Brady Bunch-era styling of this happy family with the horrors the returning soldier likely endured.

Written by Mary McCaw

Mary is a freelance writer and editor. She's based in San Francisco, but lately, home is wherever her suitcase is. If you really are what you eat, she is at least 50% pizza.