One Man Trying To Make A Difference

Updated on Friday, June 5, 2009 at 10:29AM by MAD21

As we near the 20th anniversary of the events in Tiananmen Square, The New York Times posted a great article that includes interviews with each of the photographers that captured what has become the most amazing "representation of oppression world wide."

A man known as "Tank Man," who is anonymous even still today, chose to take a stand against a line of tanks that eventually started shooting into the crowds of people that were now lining the streets. He had to know he had no chance of surviving a fight with those tanks, they could squash him like a bug, and in that country, could do so with no guilt or persecution.

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