Tom Cruise played "Maverick" in the 1986 movie Top Gun. The Kobal Collection/Paramount hide caption
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Friday
On a visit to StoryCorps, Storm Reyes told her son, Jeremy Hagquist, about growing up as a farm laborer. Reyes eventually went to night school and worked in a library for more than 30 years. StoryCorps hide caption
Once Forbidden, Books Become A Lifeline For A Young Migrant Worker
Thursday
President Obama enters before speaking at the West Point graduation ceremony on Wednesday. John Angelillo/UPI/Landov hide caption
This romaine lettuce growing in California looks pretty now. But how much of it will be discarded as waste before the unblemished plants go on display at the grocery store? John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
John All of Western Kentucky University talks about his accident while recovering in Katmandu, Nepal, on May 22, 2014. Niranjan Shrestha/AP hide caption
Tell Me More staff, past and present. Ammad Omar/NPR hide caption
Argentina's Facundo Bagnis does his best to integrate space and time as he brings his senses to bear on a tennis ball at the French Open. Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Referee Mendy Rudolph officiates a Knicks-Pistons game in 1971. Refs often say it's best to go unnoticed, but an official who "makes a call with vigor and elan is really a beautiful part of the game," says Frank Deford. AP hide caption
Tuesday
150 Years After Marx, 'Capital' Still Can't Shake Loose Of 'Das Kapital'
Since 1989, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has introduced into each session of Congress a bill called HR 40, Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Saturday
Jon Meadows was deployed to Iraq in 2006 and to Afghanistan in 2012. He and his wife, Melissa, have had to cope with the consequences of the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Afghanistan. StoryCorps hide caption
Navy Lt. Edward O'Hare, for whom Chicago's O'Hare Airport is named, sits in the cockpit of the plane in which he shot down six Japanese heavy bombers in WWII. Associated Press hide caption
Friday
Debra Jenson, 2, hanging from a hook in her grandmother's kitchen. "Over the next 35 years, I watched each of my cousins, then my own children and my cousins' children be dangled from that hook. Between the photo and watching it happen to others, this is a powerful 'fake memory' for me." Debra Jenson/Instagram hide caption
