"No land in America is more sacred than the square mile of Arlington National Cemetery."
It’s hard not to be changed after seeing a years worth of tears shed over the caskets of American soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. As an editor I had to distill tens of thousands of photographs, taken over the course of a year, which resonated sadness, honor, pride, reverence but most of all loss, into a story that we published in June 2007.
Regardless of what I witnessed in that photographic coverage, I still can’t reconcile the personal sense of loss in the eyes of Capt. Lisa Doring of the U.S. Marine Corps as she buried her husband, Capt. Nathanael James Doring, at Arlington National Cemetery, June 14, 2006.
What I can share this Memorial Day is a link back to those images, which I hope, pay homage to our servicemen and women of these United States of America.
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May 26, 2008 10AM #
I read the article last year, I seen the shots online then and still now this picture moves me. What is statistics for the nation is a personal tragedy for it's people.
Our small nation just recently suffered it's first loss in province of Ghor in Afghanistan. A stray bullet left a family without it's father.
Compassion for families of the fallen from Lithuania.
May 26, 2008 10AM #
Yes this is a tragedy when we loss a love ones. I can see the deep hurt that are plague by emotional stress in the photo. Mine heart go out to the people who have loss loved one either through war,through tragedy or just natural causes
May 26, 2008 10AM #
A heart wrenching photograph. What a trajedy.
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