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- PORTRAITS OF WAR
- http://tinyurl.com/8q43v
- Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories
- U.S. newspapers and magazines print few photos of American dead and wounded, a Times review finds. The reasons are many -- access, logistics, ethics -- but the result is an obscured view of the cost of War
- By James Rainey
- Times Staff Writer May 21, 2005
- The young soldier died like so many others, ambushed while on patrol in Baghdad. Medics rushed him to a field hospital, but couldn't get his heart beating again.What set Army Spc. Travis Babbitt's last moments in Iraq apart was that he confronted them in front of a journalist's camera.
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- http://tinyurl.com/8q43v
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- "If we believe that the present war in Iraq is just and necessary, why do we shrink from looking at the damage it wreaks?"
Sydney H. Schanberg, The Village Voice 2005-05-19
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