Rainy day at Arlington
November 11th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
"I'll love you forever."
The Service
November 4th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Members of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry regiment pause at a memorial service at FOB Ramrod for Pfc. Brian Bates, 20, from Gretna, La. He was killed in Kandahar last week by an IED while driving a Stryker on patrol.
50 Years
July 8th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
A wreath was laid at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for MAJ Dale R. Buis and MSG Chester M Ovnand, killed 50 years ago today, becoming the first U.S. casualties in the Vietnam War. Part of a military advisors group, Buis and Ovnand were killed by Vietcong guerrillas in Bien Hoa while watching a movie in the mess hall. Today they are the first names listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial under the year 1959.
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?
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.)