PHOTO OF THE DAY August 1, 2005  

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Where Warsaw, Poland
When 1987
Photographer James L. Stanfield

A mourner's memories linger among the stone crosses that populate Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery on August 1, the anniversary of Warsaw's ill-fated uprising against the German occupation in 1944.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Poland: The Hope That Never Dies," January 1988, National Geographic magazine)


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