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1. Mahalo for this beautiful informative
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 08:31 PM
Dec 2013

thread, sheshe.

I'm so thrilled that President Obama is going to speak at Madiba's Memorial~


Mourners gather to honor Nelson Mandela at an inter-faith service at the Grand Parade in Cape Town


Pakistani schoolchildren hold lamps during a memorial tribute to Nelson Mandela, in Karachi


Flowers and tributes lie at the base of the plinth bearing a bust of Nelson Mandela in central London


Marseille’s football club supporters hold a banner reading “Farewell Mandela” before the start of the French L1 football match Olympique of Marseille versus Nantes at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, southern France


Galatasaray’s Didier Drogba from Ivory Coast during a Turkish super league match


Mourners gathered in front of the South African embassy to pay their respects to the memory of Nelson Mandela in Tehran, Iran



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Follow Past Presidents regarded Nelson Mandela as a terrorist, this Pres. ordered WH flag to be lowered in his honor #Change
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The always awesome http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/07/mandela-a-global-salute/

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