Here at the Iraq War Today website, there are some great “working” pictures of our brothers and sisters in Iraq and Afghanistan, very different from many ‘news’ pictures we see daily, especially those of soldiers ordered away from their real work and told to ‘stand there’ behind visiting dignitaries, as well as different from those pictures of soldiers acting egregiously with prisoners.
These photos are very different; a montage of the day to day, and the rare and sudden smiles alone are knock-outs… the gravity of the mission ever-present, striking.
That the soldiers all truly look like people we know, love, went to school with…. well, live long enough, or deeply enough and you find that most all of humankind has some resonant spirit to you as [‘family.’
Also, you’ll see throughout this montage, soldiers acting warmly as well as soldierly toward others. Here:
http://www.iraqwarnews.net/labels/photos.html
nota bene:
Re picture above: Imagine this is ‘business casual,” that we all had to go to work with 30 pounds of clothing and artillery on every day. In heat from hell.
This is a picture of U.S. Army Capt. Brian McCall, commander and U.S. Army 1st Lt. Neal Rice, assigned to Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division… greet Iraqi army Maj. Mohamed, commander, assigned to 2nd Company, 256th Iraqi Army Battalion, prior to the start of the business seminar in the Hateen neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 12, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Charles Gill