Photo of the Day

Original Caption: August 1942. “Italian-American parade honoring neighborhood boys in the United States Army.” A close-up of the banner glimpsed here. (The bottom, just out of the frame at right, reads WE MUST NOT FAIL THEM.) Medium-format negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information

You can click the image to make it bigger. This is from Shorpy’s Historical Photo blog.  You can buy his very nice prints here, and his digital images here.

That was then, and this…is now:

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Yes, that does say what you think it does. How things have changed….

How things have changed. 🙁