Obama and Elie Weisel
April 24th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
President Obama and Elie Weisel speak at a Holocaust memorial event in the Capitol…. I’ve heard some funny stories about how happy embassy and aid workers are when they see the Marines arrive to evacuate them from tricky situations – Weisel talked about they joy and gratitude he has for the U.S. military liberating him from a death camp. Several orders of magnitude, eh?
Ghillie’s Day Parade
April 20th, 2009 | The Wires | Posted by Rob Curtis
I came across this image while searching the wires for Frontline Photos candidates this morning. While the sight of these Iranian snipers parading in ghullie suits might give a toddler nightmares, I don’t think the notoriously inaccurate AK47s they are toting do much for their image as deadly marksmen. Arresting image from Behrouz Mehri via Getty, though.
4,048 stars = 404,800 humans
April 19th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
At the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., a park ranger explained the wall of stars: “Each of the 4,048 stars represents 100 American service members killed in action.” There’s not enough space to inscribe every name.
(Maybe its just me, or my imagination, but standing in front of these stars at the edge of a small pool of water, I hear what sounds like polite, continuous applause. I don’t know if this sound is intentional, but it is definitely one place I like to bring visitors to see if they can hear it, too.)
The story behind our logo
April 17th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by M. Scott Mahaskey
Designed by artist Chris Broz, the “Line of Sight” logo shows a photo made by former staff photographer M. Scott Mahaskey of Staff Sgt. Shannon Kay engaged in a firefight with enemy forces in Mosul, Iraq. Some skeptics have suggested that the photo was doctored. With this blog, now many years later, the record can finally be set straight: Having lived that moment, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Staff Sgt Kay, during a hail of bullets and mortars…I can assure you that the moment was VERY real. For this day that I proudly witnessed, Staff Sgt. Kay was awarded the Silver Star.
Although wounded, Staff Sgt. Shannon Kay, of 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, fires on an enemy position after being attacked with a car bomb, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Army Times, M. Scott Mahaskey, via USA Today)