Flowers Into the Sea

Sadayuki Mikami

Associated Press

Charlotte Oldham, 19-year-old student of Wesleyan Univ. Conn., sobs as she throws flowers into the sea just below the Soviet island of Sakhalin where her brother, John, 27, was believed killed last week when a KAL plane was shot down. At right New York policeman William Oldham, 29, prays for his brother John.

Sadayuki Mikami, "Flowers Into the Sea," in POYi Archive, Item #12914, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/12914 (accessed November 23, 2024).