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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, February 24, 2006

Picture of the Day - 2


OCEANSIDE, Calif. - Echo Company marched up one last arid road this Friday morning, a gently curved swath to a Southern California Marine base that marked the final 100 yards of a long, brutal voyage.

Seven months and 22 deaths after they shipped out, the Marines kept formation in the face of something that might make even the most disciplined warrior break ranks: a parking lot full of weepy moms and almost weepy dads, wives, scantily dressed girlfriends and beer-toting brothers, decorated family dogs and still-unseen newborns, their signs, banners, balloons and windshield decals all welcoming their boys home from Iraq.


(Note: this picture is not from the event related in the article excerpt. Those pictures were flash and I couldn't lift them. This picture is from a Texas National Guard homecoming. This article is also a year and a half old, but it just moved me when I read it this morning.)

posted by mikevotes at 8:33 AM

3 Comments:

  • alt + prt sc will lift them right into the clipboard. From there it's just a matter of pasting and cropping.

    By Blogger Justin, at 11:47 AM  

  • Thanks a ton. Alot of organizations WaPo for example have started using flash because it's harder to lift the photos off it. It's not just right click-save.

    That's a huge favor, because I can't tell you how many flash pictures I've passed up.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 12:31 PM  

  • Your welcome. Glad I could be of some service.

    By Blogger Justin, at 1:28 PM  

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