THE SHANGHAI BABY
The Second Sino-Japanese War began in July 1937. Japan announced they were going to bomb the Shanghai’s Whampoo River. On August 28, 1937, and news teams gathered to capture the event.
The bombers didn’t hit the Chinese defenses. They hit the city’s train station—which housed 1,800 civilians waiting for evacuation, mostly women and children. The Japanese aircrews had mistaken them for troops. In total, 1,500 died.
The photographer, H.S. Wong, saw a man rescuing children from the tracks. The man placed the first young child on the platform edge before returning to help another—and that is the picture Wong took.
Amazing Photos Collection #3:
Imperial Japanese Army in China 1937
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On January 20, 2016, 18-year old Laura Hillier slipped away surrounded by her family while waiting for a stem cell transplant to treat her acute myeloid leukemia. But Laura did not die because of a lack of bone marrow donors since multiple matching donors had been identified six months earlier. Rather Laura was on the waiting list for a hospital bed--and enduring debilitating chemotherapy treatments in the meantime. You see, Laura had the misfortune of living in Canada where the government-run system of "free" medical care has produced an acute shortage of hospital beds for transplant patients. 
