Picture of the Day
An injured woman is rushed to a hospital in Baghdad December 25, 2006. A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 20 others when he blew himself up aboard a crowded bus in the Shi'ite Talibiya district in northeastern Baghdad. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem
posted by mikevotes at
8:51 AM
7 Comments:
I'm struck by this picture, taken on Christmas, because she resembles a blackened Madonna. It's as if the civil and imperial wars in Iraq are a direct affront on the the Holy Family...
Truly a war on Christmas, if ever there was one.
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-epm, at 10:15 AM
P.S. I realize I'm poetically reading too much into this image... :)
By
-epm, at 10:17 AM
epm, I had the same reaction to this photo. It sure does look like any number of paintings of Mary. Very appropriate for Christmas day.
By
Anonymous, at 11:05 AM
It's funny you mention that. I hadn't made the connection, but on Christmas afternoon, I was looking for a "Pieta" type photo of a woman holding a relative across her lap.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 11:19 AM
I agree with what you all said plus she looks like the embodiment of suffering and despair.
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Ptelea, at 3:51 PM
And she's in shock. It emphasizes the jarring nature of the random bombings.
She was just at the market, like she'd been so many times before and then bang.
Mike
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