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Portraits

  • After resting less than eight hours during their six-day patrol, Sgt. Jon Rosenberg, left, and other Marines start their Escape and Evasion exercise with singing The Marine Corps Hymn in a cloud of gas from gas grenades and then tear gas canisters. To be combat-ready Reconnaissance Marine, students must go through ten weeks training that required them to challenge their physical and mental limits.
  • VMFA Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art Dr. Leo G. Mazow is shown at the replica room from Edward Hopper's 1957 oil painting {quote}Western Motel{quote} at the museum.
  • Willie D. Ransom Sr. of Powhatan, holds a photo of his son, Charles A. Ransom, an Air Force major, killed during his duty in Afghanistan in 2011.
  • Philip S. Walker is a lawyer who filed desegregation lawsuits in Newport News in the 1950s. Mr. Walker was a member of the legal staff of the Virginia Conference of the NAACP and, as such, participated in law cases bringing about desegregation of the Newport News City Public Schools, Newport News Ship Building Drydock Company, and the Riverside Hospital.
  • Hans Blume shows his photo from 1944 at his home in Hampton. Blume was an 18-year-old private in the German Luftwaffe during WWII. He recalls the Battle of the Bulge from the German perspective on the anniversary of the day Germany launched its last major offensive against the Allies. Some sources consider it the bloodiest battle of the war for U.S. troops.
  • Nicole Unice, a pastor and author, is shown at Hill City Church in Richmond, VA. Unice is a teaching pastor at the church, and she is also a traveling pastor.
  • Nedra Ross is a member of The Ronettes, girl group of the 1960s and sang, {quote}Be My Baby,{quote} which has been described as the {quote}Record of the Century.{quote} She is shown in front of the painting of The Ronettes. As part of the Ronettes, Nedra Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
  • Rose Soghoian, left, and her sister, Florence Soghoian, hold their mother's 1914 family photograph. Their mother, Grace K. Soghoian, third from left, was 6 in 1914. After the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks, only she and her mother, second from left, survived.
  • John Nichols, 91, of Chester, served as a Buffalo soldier from 1942 to 1944.
  • Kitty Saks holds a yellow star, which she was forced to wear on her clothes, designating her as a Jew during World War II. Saks survived the Holocaust by being hidden in seven convents in Belgium.
  • Lorenzo Pope, of Newport News, prays on the street in the hot summer day in Southeast Community in Newport News. Pope says of why he prays in the middle of street for last 30 years, {quote} I'm lived by the Holy Spirit, not my doing, not my will. It's God's will.{quote}
  • Keith Allen Harward shows his tattoo with convicted date, exonerated date, Innocent Project, and his exonerated number. Harward, a former sailor wrongly imprisoned for 1982 slaying of a Newport News man and the rape of his wife, walked out of the prison after 33 years. Virginia Supreme Court granted a writ of actual innocence and tossed out his convictions after DNA tests.
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