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22/03/2010 at 22:30
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30 comments
 

• Such loss. My heart-felt sympathies to all touched by this soldiers death.
  Stephen Phillips @ 2010-03-22 22:50:01
• a very sad story!!!!
  fabrizio @ 2010-03-23 00:33:15
• Evocative with dignity and respect, your choice of framing well conveys the vacant, mind numbing loss. best...jerry
  ordinaryimages @ 2010-03-23 01:30:59
• Really sad story :(
  Robert @ 2010-03-23 01:52:01
• Powerful!!! A wonderful collage of images..put together to tell this boy's story.
  Marcie @ 2010-03-23 02:27:29
• so sad
  yz @ 2010-03-23 02:48:11
• A powerful and sad story told with respect.
  Frida @ 2010-03-23 04:40:15
• Do you know the soldier and family?
  Nick @ 2010-03-23 04:40:36
• So sad Sherri. Quite a powerful montage!
  Standley @ 2010-03-23 05:25:06
• So well put together to pay homage to this soldier and the many others who return this way ;(
  My thoughts go out to all families who have lost loved ones due to war
  JJ @ 2010-03-23 06:18:17
• A touching tribute with a powerful message. The quote is very strong and something to think about.
  don @ 2010-03-23 09:10:31
• Soldiers are a very special breed. The rest of us can only appreciate, it is so hard to relate. Heartfelt wishes to his or her family.
  Bob Towery @ 2010-03-23 09:33:42
• death is really a sad thing.. i do like these series of shots you have up here now.. methinks you trailed the hearse to get the final shot, right?
  rian @ 2010-03-23 10:27:19
• A sad set of images, but also very telling of the traditions we have surrounding death, mourning, and remembrance of lost loved ones.
  Mark Johnson @ 2010-03-23 13:58:29
• Really well done compilation of images - sends a message and it's up to the viewer on how to interpret it.
  Kala @ 2010-03-23 15:29:41
• excellent collage.
  Otto K. @ 2010-03-23 17:06:47
• Sherri, thanks for these silent strong images and the accompagnying quote. The time for heroizing the soldiers' life and death is long gone.
  Markus @ 2010-03-23 17:40:26
• i'm sorry to see this, but true honor is shown by those soldiers who fight for our country. very touching shots sherri..
  Liang @ 2010-03-23 17:54:33
• Such a sad series of pictures - and such a sad loss of another young life.
  george @ 2010-03-23 19:20:07
• Still happening all the time and we don't realize it......
  Sandy Weston @ 2010-03-23 19:34:11
• an honored grouping sherri
  elk @ 2010-03-23 21:03:40
• i agree - war is an ugly thing.
  
  your grouping here feels both strong and respectful.
  michele @ 2010-03-23 21:07:45
• Very powerful image. Respectfully done.
  Jamieson @ 2010-03-23 21:15:46
• oh dear, that always hits me deep inside. Great editorial on such a sad scene.
  Diane @ 2010-03-24 12:41:48
• A very moving set of images, lest we forget.
  Craig @ 2010-03-24 15:18:38
• Thank you for these heart wrenching images which tell the story better than words could.
  Toni @ 2010-03-24 21:35:50
• nicely done! I like this grouping of images to tell this story..
  kyungmee @ 2010-03-25 07:44:18
• This is sad.... I hope that bloodshed will soon end!
  Arjan - PlasticDaisy @ 2010-03-25 16:21:39
• un tryptique qui l'honore.. très belle composition silencieuse
  flo g @ 2010-03-25 19:52:32
• A grim reminder of that you sometimes have to give all for what you believe is the noble cause. There is no more noble a cause than serving your country.
  Jim Browning @ 2010-03-26 08:20:28

...and for a brief moment the world he passes stands still.


War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
– John Stuart Mill