Two U.S. Army soldiers hold each other for support, as one of them breaks down emotionally after witnessing Army doctors refuse to treat three badly-burned Iraqi children that’d been brought to their base by relatives seeking help. Balad, Iraq, 2003.

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Photographs of veterans of Napoleon's army wearing their original uniforms and insignia, taken in 1858, 37 years after the emperor's death in 1821, when these old soldiers were well into their 70s and 80s.

The cuirass of Napoleon, with a pattern of him in the costume of Alexander the Great, circa 1805

A mother and her 8 sons, all served and all came home.

Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm contemplating the corpse of French general Abel Douay. Art by Anton von Werner, 1888

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his military career

CPL Edward Romatowski with the M2 Browning .50 MG on his Sherman in Krefeld, Germany - Early March 1945

Future Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and his brother Ramón in North Africa, 1925.

Lt. Audie Murphy was the most decorated U.S. solider in World War II

RAF and Luftwaffe fighters dogfighting above St. Paul's Cathedral during the London Blitz, 1940

Japanese soldiers bury Chinese POWs alive. Sino-Japanese War, 1937.