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JAMAICA PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS, 2006. After the death of his son, Carlos attended other soldiers’ funerals, then began to actively protest against the Iraq war. Carrying a poster bearing a photograph of his son in his coffin, he demonstrated at the…

ROSLINDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, 2006. Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, a U.S. Marine, was killed in combat in Najaf, Iraq on his father Carlos’s birthday. Sitting in a darkened room in his home, Carlos struggles with his feelings. “When I first…

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 2006. Taking a hard look at Tomas, you see nine or ten cigarette burns, the entry wound the bullet had left in front, just beneath his collar bone, the much larger exit wound in his back, the zipper-like scar along his spine.…

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 2006. Tomas Young is constantly dropping his cigarettes on the floor and into his lap, but can’t quit smoking. “It’s the nicotine,” he says, “I guess I need it to keep going. I’ll be smoking in bed, with my wife…

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 2006. It was Tomas Young’s fourth day in Iraq when his army unit was ambushed. He was shot in the spine and paralyzed from the chest down. Early one morning, nearly two years after he was released from the hospital, Tomas,…

BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, 2005. The gravesite of Sgt. Carl Morgain, the only member of Alpha Company to be killed in combat. The 39-year-old former electronic technician and father of two died in an attack by a suicide bomber in Tikrit, Iraq. Killed…

EVANS CITY, PENNSYLVANIA, 2006. In March 2005, Alpha Company suffered its first grave injury with Sgt. Paul Statzer losing half his skull along with part of his frontal lobe in a roadside bombing. Remarkably, he survived and returned home to his…

BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, 2005. Alighting from the bus, a returning guardsman is embraced by his wife and young daughter, though from the pensive look on his face his thoughts are still somewhere else.

BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, 2005. The townspeople who’d been waiting at the armory for most of the day begin to clap, cheer, weep. The sounds of sirens have them bunching together on the hill, then crowding the road. They wave flags, fly balloons, hold…

Project Description: From a distance, war can appear a tally of cold statistics. Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, 4373 American soldiers have been killed, more than 30,000 men and women in the U.S. military maimed and wounded, with the numbers…