My Quiet Life

April 14, 2008

Filed under:grave, james, john, moore, nachtwey, photography, war — cwage @ 10:12 pm

An interesting juxtaposition of two very powerful pictures, pointed over at theonlinephotographer:

John Moore, Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery / Getty Images

Jim Nachtwey, Afghanistan, 1996 - Mourning a brother killed by a Taliban rocket.

Comments (9)

http://sarcastro.wordpress.com Sarcastro

The American chick is WAY hotter.
http://fortheluv.blogspot.com Emily

thanks for putting these together.. i love it.
http://sobeale.blogspot.com/ Southern Beale

The American chick is WAY hotter.

How can you tell?
http://jimvoorhies.com jim voorhies

The more dissimilar our peoples are, the more we also have in common at the very core of our lives. Thank you, Chris.
NNG

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/02/sgt_james_john.html
http://thehomelessguy.blogspot.com kevin

It would have been a better juxt if the second picture had been of an Iraqi mother morning the death of her child killed by an American.
Doug

Hey Kevin,
Kiss my camoflaged ass you liberal piece of sub-human slime.
Zippy

liberal piece of sub-human slime, eh? Your 'clever' comment reflects badly on you. Ignorance is a weak retort.
Katie

You never know, maybe she is mourning over the death of her son killed by americans. But that is beside the point. I think the photos are meant show show that despite all the so called "differences" we have, that the war is being fought over, we are all human.