The 60's

• The 1960s was the decade that started on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. It was the seventh decade of the 20th century.
  The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends across the globe. This "cultural decade" is more loosely defined than the actual decade, beginning around 1963 and ending around 1974
  

  
  

  John F. Kennedy assassination – President Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, and Texas Governor John Connally in the presidential limousine, minutes before his assassination.

  
  

  Jacqueline with Nehru

  

  The Kennedy's with Nehru and Indira Gandhi in the White House
  

  

  

  Bob Dylan with Joan Baez during the civil rights "March on Washington", 28 August 1963
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  John Lennon rehearsing Give Peace A Chance, in Canada, 1969
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  Johnny Cash, in front of his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, 1969

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From left, clockwise: A soldier lays on the ground during the Vietnam War; The Beatles, part of the British Invasion, change music in America and around the world; John F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1963, after serving the office of president for three years; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream Speech to a crowd of over a million; Millions participate in the Woodstock Festival of 1969; China's Mao Zedong puts forward the Great Leap Forward plan; The bombing of the Mount of Olives during the Six-Day War; For the first time in history, an American human being sets his foot on the Moon, in the Moon landing 1969

East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, November 20, 1961.

Examples of 1960s technology, including two rotary-dial telephones, and a Kodak camera.

Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by US spy planes on October 14, 1962.

Vivin Lobo - Ich Liebe Dich - I Love you - Sangam [1964] English German ...

Ich Liebe Dich -
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"Life is a city of crooked streets, death is the market place, where all men meet" .

"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"

The words are attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875 -1958), an English Classicist, who had put them together among a collection of 12 epitaphs for World War One, in 1916.
The verse is thought to have been inspired by the Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos (556-468 BC) who wrote after the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC:

"Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by,
That faithful to their precepts here we lie."

"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night, only
because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."- George Orwell

Its a little known fact that that the Royal Indian Armed Forces were the largest all-volunteer armed force in history, with nearly 2.85 million men fighting with the Indian Army, the Royal Indian Air Force and the Royal Indian Navy in WW2.Twenty-four Indian pilots were sent to England during the summer of 1940 alone. They joined the various OTUs and subsequently spread out among the Squadrons in Fighter, Coastal and bomber Command. Eight of them were killed in operations.
RIAF recruiting posters-- World War 2

^ GD(P) Sqn Ldr K K Majumdar DFC in the cockpit of an Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber during his tenure with No.268 Squadron during the D-Day Operations in Europe. Note the 'INDIA' shoulder flashes

^Twenty four Indian pilots were sent to England during the summer of 1940. They joined the various OTUs and subsequently spread out among the Squadrons in Fighter, Coastal and bomber Command. Eight of them were killed in operations.

Even after returning to India,Sqn Ldr Pujji continued the practice of naming his aircraft Amrit, after his fiancee at the time. Here(ABOVE) Pujji is seen on a Hurricane IIB in Burma.

Sqn Ldr MS Pujji(above) in 2004. He is wearing his medals with his DFC first, his FAI gliding pin in his right lapel, a poppy (symbolizing remembrance of those who fell in battle) plus his Burma Star Association pin on his left lapel.

^ The Vengeance Mk III can be identified by the twin .30 Machine guns to be operated by the 'Observer'. Here an Indian pilot climbs out of his aircraft.
^ Sqn Ldr Hem Chaudary with his gunner Flt Lt Murat Singh by his Vengeance. Hem commanded No.3 CDF during the first Burma Campaign. Earlier he flew with No.353 RAF squadron.


By the end of the war, the RIAF had risen to seven squadrons, with substantial numbers of Indian personnel flying in RAF and many other colonial nations. This airforce fought side-by-side with the British and Americans against the Japanese all over Asia, and Indian-manned squadrons distinguished themselves in the air war in Europe, as well as in the Middle East and North Africa.The inauguration of the Indian republic in 1950 had the force redesignated as the Indian Air Force

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Love is a vital, cosmic energy flowing through us all. Life is not for existing or "making do," but for loving, and we should be able to find it in in all aspects of life—marriage,work, spirituality, and more. The cumulative wisdom of the ages,teaches us that love is the key to life, and that life—all of it—is for loving. '' When I asked God for strength, He gave me a difficult situation to face----

When I asked God for brains and brawn, He gave me puzzle in life to solve--

When I asked God for Happiness, He showed me some unhappy people--

When I asked God for wealth, He showed me how to work hard--

When I asked God for Favors, He showed me opportunities to work hard--

When I asked God for peace, He show me how to help others--

God gave me nothing I wanted; He gave me everything I needed''

This picture says a thousand words.

MAY THEY ALL REST IN PEACE

WWII--A Jew, A Christian,A German-SOLDIERS ALL

♥♥LoViNg♥LiFe♥ For The Love of Mankind

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Amazing old man singing in the New York subway.

US President George W. Bush presents the Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Roscoe Brown Jr., during ceremonies honoring about 300 Tuskegee Airmen Thursday, March 29, 2007, at the U.S. Capitol. Dr. Brown, Director of the Center for Urban Education Policy and University Professor at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, commanded the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332 Fighter Group during World War II.

Who Were The Tuskegee Airmen?

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Most people today are not aware that prior to 1941, it was the policy of the U. S. War Department (Dept. of Defense) to maintain segregated military units in the Armed Forces. The few black infantry, cavalry, and artillery units that existed at that time in the army were commanded at the top ranks by white officers, with black officers relegated to the lower ranks. This system remained in force throughout World War I and World War II, with few exceptions. The Army Air Corps began training African Americans to become pilots at Alabama's Tuskegee University in 1941, under orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Army officials were skeptical of the skills of African Americans, largely basing their assumptions on a 1925 military study which concluded that African Americans lacked the courage and technical aptitude to be counted on in combat.

Nearly 1,000 African Americans earned their pilot's wings in the Tuskegee program between 1942 and 1946. They flew more than 15,000 sorties over North Africa and Europe during World War II, destroyed more than 250 enemy aircraft on the ground and 150 in the air and were so proficient at protecting U.S. and Allied bomber planes that squadrons requested that the pilots escort for them.

once there was a war

Lt. Wallace Strobel with Gen Eisenhower , 1944
Lt. Wallace Strobel (on left), 1990
Leutnant Wolfgang Kloth 2nd Panzer Division Wolfgang Kloth served as tank commander on a Mark IV Panzer in the 3rd Pz Rgt, 2nd Panzer Division on the Eastern Front in 1943. He was promoted from Unteroffizier to Leutnant (2nd Lt) and taught at a Panzer training school near Berlin. Returning to the Eastern Front as commander of a Sturmgeschutz (75mm Self-Propelled Artillery vehicle), he fought in the Kurland pocket, until the war ended in May, 1945. Herr Kloth became a prisoner of the Soviets for several years, then immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1950s. He has been a resident of Western Michigan ever since. Decorated with the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class, the Panzer Assault Badge in Silver and a silver wound badge for four wounds.