"A hunger strike by 3,000 students in Beijing had grown to a protest of more than a million as the injustices of a nation cried for reform. For seven weeks the people and the People’s Republic, in the person of soldiers dispatched by a riven Communist Party, warily eyed each other as the world waited. When this young man simply would not move, standing with his meager bags before a line of tanks, a hero was born. A second hero emerged as the tank driver refused to crush the man, and instead drove his killing machine around him. Soon this dream would end, and blood would fill Tiananmen. But this picture had shown a billion Chinese that there is hope." (-The LIFE Magazine, taken from www.digitalartist.org)
Although LIFE glorified this image as one of the "100 photographs that changed the world", there's really no answer to the "Chinese" Communist Manifesto. Thousands of students were executed. Democracy is still a far cry. Where is hope...????
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