Friday, March 19, 2010

Picture Says a Thousand Words

I have not written for a while, but this piece just caught my eye. It is a photo essay in the New York Times by Ashley Gilbertson.
The New York Times writes: Seven years after the beginning of the Iraq war — and with U.S. troop deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeding 5,000 — a look at what dead soldiers left behind. Since 2007, Mr. Gilbertson has been recording the bedrooms to which young American service members will never return. “You walk into these rooms,” he said, “and you feel like these are the kids you used to hang out with.”

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