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Haunting images by Ashley Gilbertson from the New York Times Magazine.
From an essay by George Packer in The New Yorker:
Gilbertson, who published a book of Iraq war photos called “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” has been obsessively photographing grave sites and bedrooms of fallen soldiers ever since he covered the battle of Falluja in November, 2004, along with the Times’s Dexter Filkins. Filkins wrote the essay that accompanies these pictures. His last paragraph, which describes his thoughts in the moments just after he sees a soldier cut down, is one of the finest things anyone has written about our wars:
And at that moment, you think about how the word of his death will travel; how it will depart Iraq or Afghanistan and move across the ocean and into the United States and into the town where he lives, Corinth, Miss., say, or Benwood, W.Va., and into the houses and the hearts of the people who love him most in the world. And at that moment, standing there, looking down on the dead man, you can wonder only what the family will do when the terrible news finally arrives, how they will resist it and wrestle with it and suffer from it, and how they will cope and how they will remember.
:USA:
From an essay by George Packer in The New Yorker:
Gilbertson, who published a book of Iraq war photos called “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” has been obsessively photographing grave sites and bedrooms of fallen soldiers ever since he covered the battle of Falluja in November, 2004, along with the Times’s Dexter Filkins. Filkins wrote the essay that accompanies these pictures. His last paragraph, which describes his thoughts in the moments just after he sees a soldier cut down, is one of the finest things anyone has written about our wars:
And at that moment, you think about how the word of his death will travel; how it will depart Iraq or Afghanistan and move across the ocean and into the United States and into the town where he lives, Corinth, Miss., say, or Benwood, W.Va., and into the houses and the hearts of the people who love him most in the world. And at that moment, standing there, looking down on the dead man, you can wonder only what the family will do when the terrible news finally arrives, how they will resist it and wrestle with it and suffer from it, and how they will cope and how they will remember.
:USA:
