These Historical Pictures Are Quite Unsettling 

Snap. That was my first thought when I looked into Sgt. Park’s eyes. You could tell he had seen terrible things and his soul was disturbed. RIP to him and all the brave men who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

OK I Googled it. An illness or obstructive condition of the larnyx, trachea or lungs possibly croup. LOL you learn something new every day!

Yes...My stomach actually lurched when I saw that one ! 🤢

Makes Covid look like a hangnail

🤷 When Novel coronavirus COVID-19 was at its worst, 75K died in a week

@@HM2SGT- There were motorcycle accident victims whose cause of death was listed as Covid. Be very wary of unverified statistics and who is peddling them. The same people who said that churches had to close, declared that liquor, stores, weed shops, and strip bars were “essential.”

There is always a troll to correct grammar and spelling.

​@@Jaded7981People who have standards aren't trolls.

i mean, going over the falls and dying because of an orange peel?. THATS a big middle finger if i ever saw one.

Thank you for your kind words… Hopefully more people will share over time. I try to find rare photos, but they don’t appeal as clickbait sometimes. But, I’d rather have quality content and just 30,000 cool subscribers than just farm for views and subs 🤗

Ironically, the music for this weeks collection is a piece I wrote called "Elysian Fields" ... I too am a massive Greek & Roman History nerd ...lol

I think lights is the old English term for lungs. Butchers still use it for animal parts. There is an old saying to “punch your lights out”. So maybe coughing so hard they died? Life and death was dreadful especially for the poor. Some things don’t change.

As morbid as it sounds that is one of my favorite pics that I have ever found. The list is poetry and devastation all in one.

Lung disease but not TB; that was Consumption or Phthysis. Griping of the guts is dysentery and Teeth probably nasty infected abscesses or impacted wisdom teeth.

That IS unsettling.😢

Terrifying,

Except that the caption says that the horse was being lifted OUT of the mine, not in! Look at things properly before sounding off!

How do you know it wasn't being lowered in? Because the caption says so? The caption is never wrong? Always trust the caption?

@@rodneymcgovern5984 "Chief, I believe there was a corpse in the carpet." "I also thought so, but then he said garden waste. You must learn to listen properly, Lou!"

I might mean he ratted out resistance fighters to the police

Dont like him!!

Many thanks!

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos Thanks to YOU.

Aussie soldiers had a real affection for them. Called them Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels because the P.N.G. fellas were quite gentle to people they felt a bond to, and when there were Aussie wounded to be carried, the P.N.G. fellas gathered them up, then carried them carefully for miles and miles without complaint. Pretty much anyone who survived being wounded on the Kokodoa owed his life to a number of Brown Fellas. I was born just after the war, and a number of times I heard old guys talking about various places we fought, and P.N.G. would be mentioned and BAM one of them would turn seriously to us younger people, and very carefully tell us about the brave and gentle men of P.N.G. who they all felt such gratitude to, even the ones who were not wounded. And while he was talking, the other old Digs would be watching your face carefully, quite seriously checking that you were listening and paying respect to the angels. That same watching would happen with the other common story, when Japan was mentioned, they would recount some of the cruel things they had all heard, but the difference was as clear as night and day, because the old Digs would be watching you with a clear dismissive disinterest, and the first time you even LOOKED like doubting their story of cruelties they had heard of ( And they did tend to lay it on a bit thick ) they would all kind of flick you away with their eyes and a kind of dismissing stare. They knew what they knew, and didn't care what you thought about the Japs, but I think it would have been different if anyone had said siht about their Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels.

@@uncletiggermclaren7592 I 'm sure they were good people. But I guess my dad had heard too many stories of having angry natives of some island or country come after you and stick a spear between the shoulders and you never knew it was coming. Ha! He would laugh and tell us how they had the troops all spooked.

@@rickroden7666 Apparently there were a number of guides for the first party of Aussies that went up the trail and held the Japanese and even drove them back. Men from villages that had been over-run further to the North along the trail. And they stayed with their Aussies and died alongside them, because, probably, they thought now that the Aussies were there in numbers they would toss the Japanese back into the sea. That Kokoda trail fighting was really horrible , people ate one another including Aussies eating Japanese, because it was simply impossible to bring forward enough WATER for them for weeks on end, let alone food, because it was all brought in on men's backs. And the first thing they brought, both sides, was ammo. The Papua men were willing to work for the Aussies, and even the Aussies had not enough manpower. The Japanese simply gathered all of the men from the Northern coast, and forced them to carry supplies, shot many of them to frighten the others, and gave ORDERS to their forward troops that no food or water was to be allowed the porters for their journey back. It was a weeks walk in normal times if you had to carry a normal load. Locals have walked it in three days, but that is with somewhere to stay at night, and water and food available to them. The result was they walked THOUSANDS of P.N.G. men up there, who starved to death trying to walk back to their homes through the bush because the Japanese simply shot dead anyone they saw in the bush. No one knows how many thousand P.N.G. men died but it was tens of thousands at least, far more than Australia lost.

@@uncletiggermclaren7592 Dang war is so evil. pure evil.

@@rickroden7666 Yep. Eleven members of my family were away during WW2, three with RAF in the RNZAF squadron, two were Coast Watchers up above Fiji in the Islands, one was in the Maritime Marine before the war and just stayed in the MM and he got shot at a LOT more than all the rest put together.* The rest 2nd NZEF in Northern Greece, Crete, the NA Desert and then all the way up Italy. seven made it home unharmed, three serious wounded made it home, one died in a "delivery" trip to the Kiel canal. All that effort, all those resources spent, all that training, to send men and machines off to murder other men who actually would have been their friends and had beers with them and played sports against them if it were not for Nationalism and old men. * Most of the time the infantry are somewhere protected, can't be attacked, until they make an attack. The Merchant Marine guys are in a floating target that has to keep going even once it is spotted.

I see what you did there 👀

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos Kinda lame, but so am I.

My thoughts exactly; that entrance was creepy indeed! 😄😄

That circus show entrance pic immediately freaked me out when I found it 😂

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The Mule Skinners took care of the mules. Most always, Mules. They always brought out the Mules and Horse. Mining with Mules.

They also took canaries into the coal mines. When they died the miners knew that there was gas escaping from somewhere and that they had to get away.😢😢

lol … actually he slipped on orange peel, broke his leg … which got infected, turned gangrenous and caused his demise

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos oh wow. God rest his soul. Thanks!

What in the Hell are you rambling on about!? A GI with tears in his eyes, and we’re told he’s killed w days later. A poor horse being hoisted into a mine. Soldiers from WW1. Soldiers from the American Civil War. Some poor Russian guy tied to s poll (supposedly by some state authority, I presume). What does all of that have to do with your “people being themselves” crap. And all of those that ARE about experiments and inventions… yeah, we do that today as well. The absolute ONLY one I can think of that related to your weird comment is the one about speed limits - though I think most people today think speed limits are a good idea. The idea that people need to be profound and deep on every single YT upload is a curse for this media.

Lol, what a fantasy. They were free to work or starve. Pretty sure the IRS was active. So they also paid taxes and voted.

Bullshit

I upvoted your comment after reading the first sentence, then I read the rest. What a complete load of bollocks. You have been brainwashed by the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia, plus ignorance about how the “others” lived. Yeah, life was great for those who held the reins of power. And how could you pull up your bootstraps when you didn’t have boots?

Your picture of the era is no less black and white than the person you are criticizing

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you too!

2nd photo; it's hearbreaking. Tyrants bring war when they come to conquer. Good men must resist aggressors or become slaves.

Yes I meant the second photo also. I had to go back to see that there was a first one that I missed because of the way I have to get rid of the pop-up ads.

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Kipling was not wrong, but there's still good that comes even of that vile contest

Thanks a lot 😊