Excellent News Photography

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I highly recommend you just take a few minutes to take a look at this slideshow.

As for a personal response to it, at the end of the news section is the most captivating image of all to me. Here is a transcript of what the photographer said:

He deployed to Afghanistan, and to Iraq. Twice each, in the last three years. And they planned on marrying as soon as he'd finished his four years of service. But one February day, Jimmy, was killed by an IED, a roadside bomb, and, and her life of course was changed forever.

-John Moore

I cannot imagine. You have these amazing intentions of getting married to the person you love, they've been away for so long, you miss them more than could ever be said. One day soon they will come home to you. You want to spend the rest of your life with this person. You can't imagine anything else in your life. And all it takes, is one thing to go wrong. And it's gone. That woman will spend the rest of her life grieving for her lost fiance. She's not the only one. How many mothers and wives are faced with the unimaginable pain? The life-altering anguish? There are no words that could ever describe what that must feel like.

So why do we continue to fight in wars? Can people just not see what it does? Do they no longer care?

Love is something that so many people seem to take for granted. I read in the newspaper about how a man was suing his ex-wife because she posted a monologue on YouTube telling about how she was divorced, etc. How did that happen? I would assume that when you get married to them, you love them, right?

I don't see many people getting married just for the sake of it...there's something there called love (or should be...)

That's just what I've never understood. Is there an expiry date on love?

Sorry for rambling, I'll conclude now.

I look at that final picture, and hear those words from the photographer. "Her life was forever changed.