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Ricky Ray Rector, an effectively lobotomized death row inmate, sits at his clemency hearing. To prove how ‘tough on crime’ he was, Bill Clinton returned home to preside over his execution. Rector left behind a pie from his last meal, saying he was saving it for later (Arkansas, 1992) .

USS Bremerton (SSN 698) visits her namesake city in 1986. A Washington State Ferry and dozens of civilian craft escort the attack boat.

My grandparents circa 1948

Moments before the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima, 1945.

A ‘Schienenzeppelin’ (rail zeppelin) alongside a steam train – at a railway station in Berlin, Germany, c. 1931.