16 Years Ago, One Man Stopped Four Tanks

Tiananmen Square Unknown Rebel
Happy 16th Anniversary to you Unknown Rebel. I remember seeing you live on CNN and getting totally choked up at your bravery.

As one of the Chinese pro-democracy movement’s leaders remarked, there is more than one hero in the Tank Man picture. Besides the person who risked his life stepping in front of the war machine, there is the tank driver who disobeyed his orders and refused to overrun his compatriot.

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