Reflections of War Initiative

Reflections of War Initiative Our main NGO page dedicated to art therapy on victims of war and to show that history can be written by the victims, not the victors.

Austrian mercenary Christian Schubert fires at Serbian positions during his time serving in Croatia during the Croatian ...
11/26/2025

Austrian mercenary Christian Schubert fires at Serbian positions during his time serving in Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence, 1991.

The Armenian monastery complex Kecharis, located in the resort town of Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, in the Kotayk region. The i...
11/15/2025

The Armenian monastery complex Kecharis, located in the resort town of Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, in the Kotayk region. The image captures Armenian youth from an American shelter from Alexandropol (modern Gyumri), going on a summer hike and passing by the monastery carrying an American flag. The Kecharis Monastery, founded in the 11th century by the princes of Pakhlavuni, and it was an important religious and cultural center of medieval Armenia. The presence of the American flag symbolized aid and support from the United States to the Armenian people, especially orphans following the genocide by the Ottoman Empire. During this time, a short-lived U.S. partial administration took place which, if passed in the Senate would’ve seen a American-protectorate, Western Armenian state in modern-day Turkey, templated after President Woodrow Wilson (Wilsonian Armenia).

08/07/2025

During World War II, Owen J. Baggett made history while parachuting from his damaged plane—he pulled out his M1911 pistol and shot the pilot of an enemy Japanese aircraft, becoming the only known person to down a plane with a handgun mid-air.

You are NEVER out of the fight!

10/04/2021

On October 4 1943, (anniversary today), a detachment of German and Italian forces on the Greek island of Crete, lost 17 men in clashes with the Greek Resistance. Two days later, they entered the village of Kali Sikia (Good Fig Tree), looted the homes of the villagers, lined up the women and children...

09/26/2021

When you hear the word genocide, your mind may immediately go to the Holocaust by the N***s during the Second World War.

09/16/2021

An American soldier wears a hand lettered "War Is Hell" slogan on his helmet, Vietnam, 1965.

During the Vietnam War on June 18, 1965 173rd Airborne Brigade Battalion member Larry Wayne Chaffin smiles for the camera.

AP photojournalist Horst Faas took this iconic photo on June 18, 1965, during the Vietnam War with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Battalion on defense duty at Phouc Vinh airstrip in South Vietnam.

09/03/2021

In the late 1930s, the Soviet secret police buried some 5,000 to 8,000 people at a newly excavated site in Odessa

08/23/2021

Melvin Morris became a Green Beret in 1961. Many years later in 2014 he received the Medal of Honor for his heroism in Vietnam when he used a small number of available grenades to repel a larger enemy force. He was shot several times during the encounter, but he survived the war and is currently 79 years old.

Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

05/19/2021

At only 17 years-old, was a fierce warrior during the revolution. She led an armed band of men in in 1878 after her brother was killed.

She was named "Joan d'Arc of the 19th century” by journalists. She died in 1938, when she was 78 years-old.

04/06/2021

At the beginning of the 20th century, Greeks in Eastern Thrace accounted for approximately 250,000 people. However, when the Ottoman Turks unleashed their

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