39. War Orphaned this Child
Someone snapped this photograph in China during World War II. While the horrors of the Nazis in Europe tend to get the most attention from people who study World War II, no corner of the world was untouched. The Japanese military bombed the Shanghai South Railway Station in China. The result was complete devastation, where there had once been a thriving city. This child’s mother died in the hostilities, but a silver lining is that his father survived, and they reunited. The real horror is that humanity seems to have learned nothing, and we continue bombing civilians to this day.