The above photograph was taken in Washington DC in October 1967 and like another famous photograph from Kent State it became an iconic message of peace. The capture of a simple act of putting a flower in the barrel of the gun pointed at him became etched in the memories of a generation.
As horrifying as pictures of war can be they never seem to reach the same iconic status as those pictures of standing up for the simple believe of freedom and peace. For the generation growing up in the shadow of the Internet and The Web the photo of one man before the tanks became on such photograph; and an ideal that became etched in our social memory.
In a generation that is growing up with questions about what privacy is, about what our rights are and all happening at speeds never before imagined one has to wonder if this last photograph will become a new generational iconic image.
image credits: Human Flower Project / Open Salon / Carlos Miller