Posted on 04/12/2003 11:32:55 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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It is in the breaking news sidebar! |
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And then some.
Hats off to you my friend,
God Bless
United States Marines Sgt. Jose Acostavelo carries a flower offered to him by an Iraqi civilian as his squad of Kilo Company, 3rd Batallion, 7th Marines patrols a neighborhood in Baghdad Saturday, April 12, 2003.
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| Fog of war |
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| A U.S. A-10 Warthog plane circles beyond the smoke from burning Republican Guard barracks in northern Baghdad on April 8. Later in the day, an Iraqi missile hit one of the A-10s, but the pilot ejected safely and was recovered unharmed. |
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| Taking the bridge |
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| U.S. Marines from the 3rd Battalion urge infantrymen to rush across the damaged Baghdad Highway Bridge on April 7, while under Iraqi fire on the capital's southeastern outskirts. |
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| Comfort after the conflict |
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| An Iraqi soldier comforts his crying comrade April 10 after they were captured in the northern Iraqi village of Perdeh, which came under Kurdish control. U.S. special operations forces and Kurdish fighters advanced into the nearby city of Kirkuk. |
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| Left behind |
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| Tony Nave, 6, son of U.S. Marine Maj. Kevin G. Nave, hugs a teddy bear after an April 5 funeral service at St. Patrick Church in White Lake, Mich. Maj. Nave was killed in action in Iraq on March 26. |
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| Reallocation of wealth |
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| Two Iraqi women carry furniture away from an Iraqi government office building on fire in downtown Bagdhad on Friday. Widespread looting continued in the Iraqi capital after the disappearance of Iraqi government officials and police. |
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| Homecoming hug |
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| Rocky Benard, right, cries as he embraces family member U.S. Navy Petty Officer Dale Tischler of State College, Pa., and Tischler's daughter Christina on Friday at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Norfolk, Va. Tischler and his 319 crew mates aboard the USS Portland came home after a January deployment in support of the invasion of Iraq. After delivering 7,000 Marines to the Iraqi theater as part of a seven-ship amphibious task force, the Portland returned to her home port early to repair its propulsion system. |
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| Mourning a son |
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| Fernando Suarez del Solar looks into the hearse carrying the casket of his son Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jesus Suarez del Solar after his funeral at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Escondido, Calif., on Friday. Del Solar was killed in Iraq on March 27 |
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| Ripples in Tehran |
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| An Iraqi man rips up a photograph of Saddam Hussein inside Iraq's embassy in Tehran as about 200 Iraqis storm their embassy in the Iranian capital April 11. |
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| New friends |
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| Iraqi boys cheer a U.S. Marine from Charlie Company, 1st Marine Division, in Saddam City, an impoverished area of Baghdad, on April 11. |
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| Bellying up |
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| U.S. infantrymen sit at the pool bar at the palace of Odai, the playboy son of Saddam Hussein, in Baghdad on April 10. |
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Urgent search An Iraqi man searches through documents April 11 in Baghdad's military intelligence headquarters for signs of missing relatives who had been seized by the regime before the war. |
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Bound for Baghdad U.S.-trained Free Iraqi Forces soldiers wave their flag from a U.S. Army truck as they pass through the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on April 11. Some of the roughly 150 Iraqi soldiers in a column of about 30 vehicles said they were heading to Baghdad to help U.S. troops. |
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| Morning exercises |
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| Crew members do their morning gymnastic exercises April 11 in a hangar aboard the USS Nimitz. The San Diego-based 1,100-foot, nuclear-powered Nimitz class aircraft carrier relieved the USS Abraham Lincoln. |
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| Waiting for supplies |
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| An Iraqi boy and his sister join the line for fuel and water as it is distributed by members of Britain's 3 Regiment Army Air Corps Civilian Military Cooperation Team in a village in southern Iraq on April 11. |
This last one reminds me of the National Geographic photo of the 12 year old girl from Afghanistan from 1985.
Click for the story behind the picture.
Immensely impressed and eternally grateful!!
In Memory of the Prison Artist
"Locked within the tyrant's cell
Powerless to escape this hell
Stripped of all humanity
With no way out, no way to flee
The things I once thought somehow mattered
Now utterly worthless, illusion shattered
All I think of now are my children and wife
More important to me than my very life
My imprisonment has forced me to measure
To recognize my only treasure"
EV
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