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URBAN ISLAM

Echoes of War - PFC Eric Ayon attempts to start a Humvee that was just ambushed in Ar Ramadi during the April Sunni uprising in Iraq. Eight Marines in the Humvee were killed. Ayon himself would die three days later at the same intersection. Echo…

'Light Amid Loss' - Michael Battles Jr, 4, sits in his mother's lap Luz Maria Batista Battles, during grave side services at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, in San Antonio, TX, for his father Sgt. 1st Class Michael Battles Sr, 38, who was killed…

'Skylight' George Henderson , of Ft. Pierce , Florida sits and stares up at the sky through the missing roof of his mobile home damaged by Hurricane Jeanne

Tragedy in Gonaives- Men remove a lifeless body from a hijacked food truck after he was trampled trying to get food. The town suffered severe flooding, killing thousands and leaving survivors without food, water, or shelter.

Recovering Bodies. St. Julien St. Juste, 60, a retired morgue worker, collects bodies of children for a mass burial.

Billy Charlton, 34, and Trigby Perea, 37, of San Francisco always imagined throwing a lavish wedding, but when they saw thousands of other same-sex couples saying vows at San Francisco City Hall, they jumped at the chance.

The Pain of Death-Jestus Fayne, 9, center, the youngest sister of 16-year-old murder victim Jestin Fayne, is overcome with grief during the final viewing of her brother during funeral services Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004, at Clement Memorial African…

Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat boards a Jordanian army helicopter 29 October, 2004, at the Muqatta, his West Bank offices in Ramallah, en route for Amman, from where he will fly to Paris to seek medical treatment.

(March 17, 2004) Registered Nurse Joy Clemenson, of Littleton, gets Roarke Fitzpatrick McNally ready to see his parents in the maternity ward of Littleton Adventist Hospital in Littleton, Colo., on Wednesday, March 17, 2004. Roarke was born early on…