The world has witnessed a lot. Millions of photos are clicked everyday, but some of these capture moments that are truly unforgettable and heart wrenching. That is the brilliance of photography. It is so much more than just a visual aid. It is an emotion brought to life no matter when you choose to revisit it.
Having said that, here are 40 powerful photos from around the world that will break your heart:

1. A Koala is fed water by a firefighter during the Black Saturday bushfires in Australia, 2009.

op oya na

A 17-year-old girl offers a flower to a soldier during the pentagon Anti-War protest in October, 1967.

misreal:
op oya na

Trying my best to make it fast

I'm so sure this is gonna make my day.
op,will a bottle of de rocci do for this post? oya now,ready.

A widow receives her husband's body about after 63 years. Army Set. 1st class Joseph Gantt died as a Pow during the Korean War in 1951.

I'm so sure this is gonna make my day.
op,will a bottle of de rocci do for this post? oya now,emi ti ready.

olatunjithomas:
I'm so sure this is gonna make my day.

op,will a bottle of de rocci do for this post?
oya now,ready.

Not sure bro. You'll need more cos all the pics are heartbreaking.

Ayam quietly Fallo-wing

A sergeant looks after a 2 week old kitten during the Korean war.

Pls u guys should bear with me. Having a hard time uploading the pics

Rano85:
Pls u guys should bear with me. Having a hard time uploading the pics

Nice pictures but be fast uploading others

gues u sawthe pics in some blogs ryt...

Rano85:

Not sure bro. You'll need more cos all the pics are heartbreaking.

okay now,i don kukuma get a carton.
meanwhile OP keep em coming while I help you sweep your space in FP.




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Robert Peraza falls to his knees as he touches his son's name at the 9/11 memorial.

A Japanese girl placed in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through the window.

A dog sits next to the grave of it's owner, who passed away in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janeiro in 2011.

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#8 John F Kennedy Jr. at his father's funeral, saluting his coffin. JFK was assassinated on 22nd November, 1963

(9) A South Korean cries as a North Korean relative waves goodbye. A temporary 3-day family reunion was allowed after 60 years between families from across the border in my October, 2010.

(10) Father and son in 1949, 2009, 2011.

(11) A couple kisses after the girl was knocked down by a policeman during the Vancouver riots, which occurred after Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks, in June 2011.

The LIFE magazine photo of U. S. Navy officer Graham Jackson, a friend of president Roosevelt, playing at his funeral April, 1944.

A Russian Soldier plays an abandoned piano in Chechnya, 1994.

Jacqueline Kennedy in her suit stained with her husband's blood right after his assassination, as Lyndon Johnson takes the oath on 22nd November, 1963.
The moment prompted Lady Bird Johnson to say "Her hair was falling in her face but she was composed. l looked at her. Mrs Kennedy's dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood - her husband's blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights - that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood".

adewumiopeyemi:
gues u sawthe pics in some blogs ryt...

Yep!

Decided to share.

For pic number 8, 9, 10,11

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#15 A widow leans on her husband's headstone on the day before their wedding anniversary on 16th October, 2013.

#16 Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela.

#17 A man jumps to his death from the World Trade Centre during the 9/11 attack.

#18 The unknown yet famous 'Tank Man' who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks on June 5, 1989, during the Tiananmen Square protests.

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#19 A journalist runs across a bridge to rescue a baby during the Civil War in 1936.

#20 12year old Brazilian kid, Diego Torquato, plays violin at his teacher's funeral, who had helped him escape violence & poverty through music.

#21 Marine staff sgt. Marc Golczynski's son accepts the flag for his father during a memorial service. He was shot a few weeks before he was due to return home.

#22 A 7 month old is held by his mother at a rescue Centre in Kenya. (The child is said to have made a full recovery).

#23 A French citizen cries as the Nazis occupy Paris during the 2nd World War.

#24 Soldiers rescue a 4-month-old baby girl who went missing for 4 days after the Japanese tsunami in March, 2011.

#25 A small kid tries to pull his alcoholic father back to his feet.

#26 The final embrace of a couple that died after a factory collapsed in Bangladesh.

I was here

#27 A young man holds his face in the rain in the city of Rangoon. Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar leaving Millions homeless and over 1,00,00 dead in May, 2008.

#28 A violinist cries while playing at a 9/11 memorial service in Vancouver.

#29 A Japanese woman cries after Earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in March, 2011.

#30 This one speaks for itself. (Life)

Now this first pic made me cry.

#31 An African girl is actually part of a zoo! A human zoo in Belgium, 1958.

#32 A Turkish official teases Armenian kids by showing them a piece of bread during the Armenian Genocide, 1915.

#33 A Red Cross nurse writes the last words of a British Soldier during WW1

#34 A Chinese paramilitary police recruit starts crying before being shipped for service.

Thank you OP, great thread.

#35 A war veteran from Russia kneels down in front of a tank that he spent the war in. The tank is now a museum.

#36 A priest prays over those who died in the Titanic accident before burying them at sea.

#37 A monk prays for an old man who died while waiting for a train in China.

#38 A monk in Vietnam self immolates in a protest against persecution of Buddhist by South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem administration.

Viktor1983:
Thank you OP, great thread.

U'r welcome, bro.