October War remains an endless epic that narrates memories of tournaments and scenes of great leaders and honorable soldiers engraved in our minds, hearts and consciences. I was impressed by some photos of October war victory. They are symbolic, influential and expressive ones from the past decades; we do not know the people in these photos, but these photos embody a moment in the history of that epic.
Coincidentally, two images of October War are of teachers who were educators of generations.
The most famous image is the one of the soldier with the most famous sign of victory; from the front, we watch this picture since our childhood in schoolbooks, on the walls and everywhere, we thought it a picture drawn from the imagination of the painter, but it is a real image. The picture, showing a soldier shouting after the Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal and penetrated the Israeli front, was of an Egyptian fighter Abdel Rahman al-Qadi.
He joined the military service after graduation in October 4, 1967, experiencing the war of attrition, the Rogers Initiative and the ceasefire.
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fighter Mohammed Taha Yacoub,[/caption]
Second picture:
The second picture is of the soldier with the most famous sign of victory in the war, who became the owner, (inventor) of the most famous sign of victory. He is the fighter Mohammed Taha Yacoub, a member of the 19th Infantry Division of the Third Field Army. As for the circumstances of this picture, it was at the wartime when he was interviewed by a journalist who asked him to take a picture on the battlefield. As the journalist was taking the picture, the fighter raised his fingers with a sign (V) that became a sign of victor.
By this sign, he wanted to say that we restored Sinai again while the sign represents the map of Sinai “Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez”. The picture became an icon of victory. Yacoub graduated and worked as a teacher and married, but he felt that he had a duty towards his homeland and volunteered in the army, although he had previously received military service exemption.
Contributed by Basant Ahmed
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/wendell-steavenson/egypt-remembering-the-6th-of-october
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