Jan Kasmir (born in 1950) is a former American high-school
student who became known stemming from an iconic anti-war photography taken by
Theater appreciation photographer Marc Riboud. Kasmir was photographed on 21
October 1967 even though involvement with several thousand anti-war activists
who previously had marched to The Pentagon to raise our voice against America’s
involvement in Vietnam. Seventeen-year-old Kasmir was shown clasping a daisy
and gazing at bayonet-wielding soldiers. The photo was published world-wide and
have become a symbol of the bouquet strength movement. Smithsonian Book after
that defined as it "a gauzy juxtaposition of armed force and so blossom
child innocence"
A matching appearance was taken the same thing day, by
Bernie Boston, entitledFlower Capacity.
In Birmingham in 2003, Riboud again photographed Kasmir
protesting against the Iraq War where she transferred a poster-size text of the
1967 photography
Kasmir become a restorative massage therapist in 1986, in
Manhasset New York, at the New York The university of Diet Professionals. In
1991 her children, Lisa Ann Kasmir came into existence. Jan closed down her
practice, and then specialised herself to mothering her daughter fulltime. She
movable to Aarhus, Denmark, with her Danish husband and her daughter. She
returned with her baby to the United States in 2004, and resumed living on
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Currently, she is functioning on her
autobiography with author, Ken Scott, whose most commonly known book is Execute
The Feathered creatures Still Sing in Hell. Kasmir is aspiring to turn back
school to end up being a Rabbi and so head up her social organization, Mensches
in the Trenches, dedicated to promoting service plan to the local community.