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Monday, December 11, 2006

Picture of the Day - 2








U.S. Army Sgt. Yevgeniy Ryndych was killed in action on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006 in Ramadi, Iraq. His family and fiancee were told of his death the same day she got a package with the engagement ring that Ryndych ordered for her over the Internet, said the soldier's brother, Ivan. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

posted by mikevotes at 9:04 AM

4 Comments:

  • Great post, thanks. Don't know if you've seen these two short videos from Iraq yet or not, but both show the US Military engaging in some very dubious actions. I have them up on my site at www.minor-ripper.blogspot.com ..You have to wonder what these soldiers were thinking when videotaping this stuff...

    By Blogger MR, at 10:07 AM  

  • I'll take a look later.

    I haven't seen what you've got up, but you have to know they're in such a different mindspace partially because they're reality forces them there, and partially because it's the only way they can handle it.

    After being in that for awhile, morals, humor, and personality all shift off of what we consider normal.

    War is not a normal human experience.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 11:25 AM  

  • here's the caption of my picture of the day:

    A Sunni woman holds framed image of a powerful anti US radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as they are visited by his representative, sheik Rahim Al-Alaaq, in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Sunday Dec. 10, 2006. Shiite delegation visited few remaining Sunni families in Sadr City, Iraq, to express support and solidarity on a day when Baghdad has been suffering from a series of attacks aimed at driving Sunnis or Shiites out of neighborhoods of the capital where they form a minority. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

    It's a great picture in itself too.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:54 PM  

  • Wow, that is pretty good. Karim Kadim is a great (and fearless) photographer.

    I feel that these pictures can often carry a message that I can't get through my writing.


    Also, when I started doing the pictures, there weren't many pictures from Iraq making it into the press. At the end of 2005, the media was still not showing the reality. That's why I started.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:47 PM  

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