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IRAQ. Garma. October 31, 2006. Marine Sgt. Jesse E. Leach drags a comrade shot by a sniper while patrolling.

“A number of the Iraq photos you may remember, but not in the same way that you remember the iconic images from Vietnam, which we’ve seen over and over. Most of the Iraq images were just published once, and the news cycle marched on. If you missed the relevant issue of Newsweek or Time or the New York Times, that was that. Many of them weren’t even published in the United States—too grisly for the American palette. And others were published for the first time in this book. A number of photographers Kamber interviews say the conflict’s most indelible images were not shot by photojournalists, but by soldiers. The notorious Abu Ghraib collection includes some of the strongest, most shocking photos to come out of that war.”

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Photograph: João Silva/The New York Times

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Memorial Honoring the War Dogs who served in the Vietnam War. Many lost their lives. Many had to be left behind. https://wrhstol.com/2Z3qzK8

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Ooorahhh!!!!

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US Marine mortar team, Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945. https://wrhstol.com/2BxkYDg

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Because it's bullshit?!?!

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Aww hell naww

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Plane Crossing a Crescent Moon : No, this is not a good way to get to the Moon. What is pictured is a chance superposition of an airplane and the Moon. The contrail would normally appear white, but the large volume of air toward the setting Sun preferentially knocks away blue light, giving the reflected trail a bright red hue. Far in the distance, well behind the plane, is a crescent Moon, also slightly reddened. Captured a month ago above Valais, Switzerland, the featured image was taken so soon after sunset that planes in the sky were still in sunlight, as were their contrails. Within minutes, unfortunately, the impromptu sky show ended. The plane crossed the Moon and moved out of sight. The Moon set. The contrail became unilluminated and then dispersed. via NASA

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Moon, Jupiter and Venus on Palermo, Italy.

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All the other Amendments got to keep up with the times.

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SOUTH VIETNAM. November 4, 1965. War photographer Dickey Chapelle receiving last rites in the mud, fatally wounded by an exploding mine while covering a U.S. Marine unit on a combat operation. A fellow war correspondent, Henri Huet, shot the picture.

Photojournalist Dickey Chapelle was wearing combat boots, a bush hat and her signature pearl earrings when she was hit by shrapnel from a Viet Cong land mine near Chu Lai Air Base on Nov. 4, 1965. She was the first female American war correspondent to be killed in action. “When I die, I want it to be on patrol with the United States Marines,” she’d once said. Her last words were, reportedly, “I guess it was bound to happen.” [x]

Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

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Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

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Ok this is interesting

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When this bubble bursts it will be bad

Hitting too close to home