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jkelber  Pro User  says:

Stunning picture. The little boy trying to keep it together as the Marine hands him the flag. Sent a shiver down my spine when I stumbled upon this one.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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stroker349 says:

great photo but, alas, the poor kid lost his dad--why and for what? I am old enough to be moved too but also to recall that this fake war is like some others (Nam, Grenada etc) that were not necessary and were further examples of the wealthy and elite sending others out to die in unjust causes. And yes, I have served in the military and in a war zone, and also more that one hitch in the army.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Raw Street Photography [deleted] says:

"Sorry kid, here's your flag."

It saddens me greatly to see the chilling effects this war has on families. The loss off a parent is extremely traumatic and is something I deal with daily in my home. It effects everyone. This kid is impressionable and although he's doing well to hold back those tears it seriously upsets me that he's not balling out, crying, while asking why his parent(?) isn't coming home. Will he continue to withhold his emotions as he gets older? We all know how that turns out.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Jenni & Brett  Pro User  says:

Wonderfully caputured photo. Why would you try to talk down to what this young man is feeling? I didn't see that it was his father that died. I didn't read anywhere that this death was from previous comments unjust war. Why even say such things? Leave your politics out of this - this kid is holding back a well of tears and all we should do is offer our sympathy and encouragment to him!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Mazapán  Pro User  says:

wow, simply amazing...
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Dozer. says:

This is amazing. Great Capture.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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equipeowen says:

You have captured this moment. Very sad for the child and family.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Xiol says:

A touching photo.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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SanDaiFez says:

God is great?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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awolgooney says:

Quote Jenni & Brett - " I didn't see that it was his father that died."
The name of the picture is sonatfuneral.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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kinokonoko says:

"Your daddy's blood is in the gastank now, son."
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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annasaru says:

Great picture. And if I may add to the comments - Its a neat partition, the Americans weep for the Americans and the Iraqis weep for the Iraqis.

There are no grand photo moments of Iraqi sons trying their best to hold their tears back. Not to trivialize this boy being deprived of his father.

Sorrow and bravery exist outside our borders too - much in the same magnitude - perhaps greater.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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DarthMaltball  Pro User  says:

To the photog - are you related to the family? Can you give us any more backstory? Thank you.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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happygirlpp says:

This family is from my hometown. Many people admired the marine who died, and his mother used to attend my church. The Marine in question was devoted to serving his country. I agree, War is very very bad, and the children left behind, well, it's heart breaking. Same with children who lose parents that are police officers. I hate it that anyone should die in war or in any way that is related to hate, but that is the world we live in. As unfortunate as it is that it happens, I am so thankful that someone like this marine cares enough to protect my life and I know that as this child grows up, he will respect that sacrifice that his father made. This death was not in vain, and the best thing to do for this child, is to honor his father.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Dumitru Tira [deleted] says:

his facial expression! :S
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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James Gray  Pro User  says:

Brilliant, amazing photograph, tragically sad and moving.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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tr00pswuz  Pro User  says:

this has me all choked up
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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DarthMaltball  Pro User  says:

@NomadicEntrepreneur

I thought the same thing, but with kneejerk stuff like this most people don't care.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Lord Bradley says:

Speechless
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

keiferalbin [deleted] says:

Wow. Amazing picture.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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mrique says:

no word..;
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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capt_jack72 says:

Dear Jenni & Brett: Exactly right you are. I mean its just a pic, rite? Probably staged by damned domocrats who just want the terrorists to win. Who are we to ask "why" or "what for"? Who are we to care what's going to happen to this little boy, son of a dead Marine? How rite you are! Best to simply offer a few platitudes of sympathy, ask no questions and forget you ever saw it.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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annasaru says:

No doubt there's something gripping about this picture. For one the boy's emotions. The second element mixed in with that is the Flag and the patriotic crap.

To those who are too sure about this war being good for America :History will be the best judge.

Morons can sometimes do great things - I dont deny that. And the democrats are no less political slimy bastards.

America lives by its guns. We are a violent society that does not know how to negotiate or understand other's opinion. Not that the UN is a bunch of angels.

But with great power, comes great responsibility.

And Bush is a moron. No question about that. Totally.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Rob in PDX  Pro User  says:

That poor boy can not possibly understand why. I wonder if he ever will.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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pc3i says:

Very touching picture with awesome lighting and dramatic effect.

As to the politics behind the pictuer you can look at it both way,s right?

A patriotic message in support of our troops and their families making the ultimate sacrifice for our frredom.

Or a picture that emphasizes the waste of brave American lives in a war that was oversold in it's necessity and undersold it the ultimate cost.

Either way the son lost a father and we should not dishonor his sacrifice or his pain.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Fort Photo  Pro User  says:

Amazing emotion, what a powerful image.

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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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ScubastevieG  Pro User  says:

This is an exceptional photo! the raw emotion sent chills down my spine. Please accept my sympathy if you were a friend or relative of the deceased.

For the sake of the child can we leave the politics out of this. Perhaps you start a forum somewhere else...
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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cabbit  Pro User  says:

While I'm glad this was posted here for redditors to see, I'd love to see the original photographer receive some accolades for this incredible image.

Here's more information on this photo:

blog.800hightech.com/child-of-fallen-marine-a ccepts-ameri...

"Marine Staff Sgt. Marcus “Marc” Golczynski, was killed in Iraq on March 27. At his funeral in April, Daily News Journal photographer Aaron Thompson captured Marc Golczynski’s teary-eyed son, 8-year-old Christian, accepting a U.S. flag from his father’s casket."

I was unable to find the photographer's personal site, but he is present in the online photographic community. I won't be posting links to any profiles of his because they contained personal phone numbers.

Additional

News story on response to photo from paper responsible:

www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID= /20070513/CO...

ABC on photo:

abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3140316
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DarthMaltball  Pro User  says:

Thanks cabbit for tracking that down.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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cabbit  Pro User  says:

No worries :)

Only takes 5 mins if you know what you're doing.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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DarthMaltball  Pro User  says:

Which excludes me! :/
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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SmilingMonk  Pro User  says:

Outstanding work!

Why did this boys father have to die? I would really like to know.

Consider this:
... The 105th Congress’s impeachment of Bill Clinton was an elitist backlash to pummel an Arkansas poor-boy for dethroning the patriarch of the ruling class. Unfortunately, the 110th Congress conforms to the same eliticism, refusing to impugn the progeny of that same ruling class. The collapse of our democracy is in no small part due to the ideological similarities between the Republican and Democratic parties, fueled by cronyism and mutual corporate ties.

Sadly, Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic Congress will rue the day they took impeachment off the table. By disregarding the wishes of The People and making no effort to impeach Bush and Cheney, Speaker Pelosi will go down in history as the Speaker who permitted the most corrupt Administration in American history to perpetrate its crimes. She has secured her legacy as the spineless leader of a spineless Congress that defied the Constitution and sanctioned Bush and Cheney’s lies. The 110th Congress and its Speaker have become enablers, accomplices and accessories to the crimes.

The bottom line… Bush and Cheney have eighteen months left to their term. During this time they are capable of many more egregious crimes. Congress’s failure to initiate articles of impeachment for Bush and Cheney’s criminal acts is a breach of Congress’s Oath “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic.” If Pelosi and the 110th Congress do not uphold this Oath, they have secured their rightful places alongside Bush and Cheney as enemies of the state.

[from: www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/08/2385/ ]

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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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eventi says:

i hate you people - i'm leaving the internet
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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revertebrate  Pro User  says:

He needs to be gathered in for the biggest, warmest hug in the world.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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jakethemonkey says:

Reminds me of a peom written about Korea.

Why are they lying in some distant land
Why did they go there
Did they understand
Young men they were
Young men they stay
But why did we send them away, away?

Fuck these useless wars.
The governments of our countries want nothing more than oil.
They use the lives of our people to get it.

This photo fills me with sadness. I hope he doesn't grow up hating muslims, or any other creed.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Ricket  Pro User  says:

This is akin to a snuff film and should be appropriately tagged as the propaganda that it is.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Joe-Blogs says:

I'm not interested in the politics, this is a magnificent image, of a terribly sad moment...thanks for sharing.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Brent_Zupp  Pro User  says:

I had to share this with whatever audience I have on my blog...Hope it's okay:

Young Boy Receives Flag at Father's Funeral

Thanks for having the courage to capture this moving moment...The result has such deep impact....
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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kayjaybee82 says:

Stunning shot, gave me chills. You've managed to capture an incredible amount of human emotion.

Save the political commentary guys, no matter what your view is you'll always be a retard for posting politics on flickr.

Brilliant picture.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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B~  Pro User  says:

It is a brilliant picture and a reminder of the horrible sacrifice
some of our young people are having to make so that you
yahoos can sit here and debate whether or not we should be there!!!

We should not be, but we are!
And they need our love and prayers and support....

One of these days we will stop killing each other in the "name" of God...

God does not want this ~ it is MAN that can't stop the killing ~
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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hockpooh777 says:

A big reason why I burned my draft card for nam. I grew up with my oldest brother's friends getting killed in Nam. Then I became old enough to die for some idiot playing games with people's lives. Now we have a new idiot that's worse then Nixon.

The look of this kids pain really rips at my heart. I've felt and seen this for far too long.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Genesis 1.3  Pro User  says:

So touching!
Cant look at it without tears!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Elise87 says:

mmmm....God Bless his family
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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peasap  Pro User  says:

OMG! That picture breaks my heart. That little boy is never going to see his dad ever again. I can't imagine for one second how that must fell to a little boy.

This image brings to mind a quote from Robert Capa who was a war correspondent:

"It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. "
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Dale Siscoe [deleted] says:

Amost moving image and I feel for the little boy, his father was in a harsh buisness and right or wrong I am sure he did what his duty dictated. and he paid the price for that duty.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

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jewelryqweenofbeads97 says:

What an awesome picture....it makes me want to cry just seeing it. He is trying so hard to be strong while that Marine hands him that flag.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

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GeoJerry says:

This photo is a reminder that not all war photography takes place on the battlefield. The impact of war goes far beyond the war zone regarding both place and time. This photo is also a reminder that a great picture truly is worth a thousand words.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

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LikeSoy says:

I weep for those of you who can't put your politics aside and feel something genuine for this boy.

You use the boy's pain to validate your point of view.

You use this boy's pain.

Shame on you.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

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sansreproache  Pro User  says:

LikeSoy, I agree. Forget the political rantings and ravings for a moment and truly feel for this boy. He has lost his father, who to him will always be a hero.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

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parx says:

words diminish the feelings .
nothing in the world could have captured the moment rather than a well timed photograph.
the photo makes us realise how a war takes toll on families.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

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luis_gdl says:

Mr Bush

Explikele a este niño y a muchos otros que

perdieron a sus, padres, ti@s, herman@s,

por que fue buena idea ir a la guerra
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Canuck with a camera  Pro User  says:

Too tragic for words

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Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

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ZachsMind says:

Joe-Blogs said: "I'm not interested in the politics, this is a magnificent image, of a terribly sad moment...thanks for sharing."

I second that.

Try please to set your political convictions aside for just a moment and look again at the picture. The courage on that young man's face as he looks at the soldier is awe-inspiring. The brave lad demonstrates simultaneously the worst humanity can experience, and the best humanity can be.

There are similar events happening on the other side of the current conflict. Muslim boys are losing their fathers too. This is not an American event. It's a human one.

It's not about choosing sides. For the war. Against the war. For the Americans or against. It's about realizing we are ALL on the same side, fighting amongst ourselves.

Unless you got another planet you can go to.
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_Hans van de Vorst  Pro User  says:

World press quality.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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madjayhawk says:

No one likes wars that kill young people. No one likes auto accidents that kill young people. No one likes drugs that kill young people. No one likes the diseases that kill young people. Young people die prematurely in many different ways. War is only one of them.

Go to Colleville France and stand amongst the white marble tombstones marking the final resting places of those who died during WWII and ask yourself, as tears run down your face, whether these young people died in vain. Ask the young children playing nearby and babbling in French instead of German if they died in vain. Look in horror at the pictures of the concentration camps in the museums and ask if these young people buried in Colleville died in vain.

We, the American people, have reached a point again where we need to take a stand against people whose sole objective in life is to kill us. We are taking that stand and it can be painful as the look in the boy's face shows. Someday you will stand in a place like Colleville where our Iraqi war heros are buried and ask yourself whether they died in vain or not as tears run down your face. I think I know what the answer will be.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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chicharro says:

Impressive and emotionally charged capture.

*points to comment above*

I can't believe you're comparing WWII with W's *War on terrorism*.

*rolls eyes*

WTF did the Iraqis have to do with 9-11?
Bomb them anyway, eh?... for lack of a better way to make some bigwigs very, very rich while emptying America's coffers! Besides they look shady, those Iraqis, don't they?

Let's just shake up the whole Middle East and pull the wool over the common Americans' eyes by plastering flags all over the place and letting them think it's all for this really big noble cause. We'll wag fingers at any person daring to doubt any of this. Better yet we should harass any doubter.... jail them!!
How dare they claim the emperor has no clothes!!
*evil laugh*
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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Nicolo Fugi says:

A caption might read: Son, your father was a slave to a corrupt administration, and it got him killed.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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Beckywithasmile  Pro User  says:

wow. I feel for the boy.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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stalzz64  Pro User  says:

Bring them home NOW, so no more children have to be handed flags in memory of mommy or daddy! Don't vote Republican!! Madness!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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madeinwelly says:

wow, this is extremely powerful
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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tamidepp says:

that will teach you for raiding countrys you fascist pigs!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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Fay Kelley says:

Awesome photo!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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ilgattopunx says:

it's just a kid.
it's just as sad as a lot of other kids that lost a loved one or even limb (if providence made him iraqi).

if you are looking for meaningful reasons, his dad died in vain.

don't you dare comparing iraq with ww2, they started differently, and were waged differently. my heart is both with the scammed americans and the looted iraqis, you are both victims of the same villain, which is corporate earth (it isn't corporate america, that's just a fraction).

and no, war isn't something that just happens, like car accidents, that are product of the need of getting there fast, or drugs, that are just another product.
wars are violent from starters, they are the way a country has to mug another.
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jmwests  Pro User  says:

A beautiful and very touching photo.
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mckeown says:

It's not an auto accident...... it's a bollocks war invented by the bush familly........ it's not a just war..... it's not even a war..... it's just the rirual slaghter of the working class to justify the ambitions of a few. I hope they all rot in hell. Why should that wee kid not have a daddy ever again?

I mean like he is dead.
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Eric Franqui  Pro User  says:

I don't believe that the politics of the issue do anything for that child and whoever else the deceased is survived by. Be it a soldier lost at war or a training mishap, I am nearly positive that it does nothing for the boy.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

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haizeleyez says:

Such an incredible picture captured here. Amazing the emotion that it holds, so touching.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

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Euro Kouro  Pro User  says:

You know you have a winner when half the world can't help it but initiate a dialogue. Good capture. Intimate capture. Good portfolio capture. A winner photograph.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

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Euro Kouro  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called I, Witness (Global Photojournalism), and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
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[!!!] Sweet Peas Photography [!!!]  Pro User  says:

really powerful. poor kid.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

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mahonyweb  Pro User  says:

Fantastic photo, but very sad.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

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filippo rome says:

Stop the war.
Stay at home.
The world is tired of your war.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

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stickinit says:

What a touching scenario and a strong young boy. My husband is in the military, recently returned from Iraq and this picture portrays my nightmares. Very emotional capture.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

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Nicolai Kjærgaard says:

So strong.. and sad.

Thank you for sharing.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

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sf.hulk says:

i wish my dad was a war hero, he's a drunk!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

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marcos ramone says:

fucking americans, get happy only seeing a flag? wtf??
fuck america and war
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

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Chris1051  Pro User  says:

Freaking tragic
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

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Insane_Asylum says:

This picture is beautiful. I can feel the lump in my chest just looking at the poor child's eyes. I can't imagine what he felt at this very moment. It's very tragic.. this war needs to be over, no child needs to experience this agony so young. This is a very powerful picture that gets right into your very core being.
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christopher drew says:

WoW this is a stunning picture, brings a shiver down my spine.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

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phooey avi says:

photography n wt timing
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ivarmarotta says:

A very brave young man. and an astonishing shot. (if it wasn´t for the grain it would be an award winning one, world press, ap, roiters or similar )
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

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The Aly says:

This is amazing. I got kind of teary looking at it. Truly amazing.
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The Joys of Motherhood  Pro User  says:

Fantastic photo! Brave boy. Sorry for his loss.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

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sawan.gupta says:

Touching... .. and Bravery shown by a young boy..
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

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Eddie Presley says:

I don't know that kid, but I know what that kid is going through, when I was that age I had to do the same thing and take that flag from my dad's coffin from the soldier performing his duty. To think you know what he's going through... unless you've stood in his shoes... you don't know.
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libar_021 says:

A very powerful image!
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©lint  Pro User  says:

I have performed hundreds of military burials during my tour of duty, and I cant remember ever being as moved as I am right now.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

iam4given4sure [deleted] says:

No words..........
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BinarySpike says:

Why would the officer be handing it to the kid? and not the mother?

It's truely an amazing picture.
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Gromix says:

wow
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The moment captured here is truly amazing! there aren't enough awards to express the excellence in capturing such a moment.

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delfiddes  Pro User  says:

artistically excellent, thoughts with those left behind......
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Paul Patterson says:

It's disgusting that you're taking credit for the work of talented photographers like this and from an image so emotionally charged as this one.
Stop stealing other artists' work.
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actionwaitresshacha says:

I agree with Jenni and Brett. I would hope that what sustains him through this moment would be pride. And regardless of politics, we would have to give him that.
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Lauren Peralta  Pro User  says:

I just cried looking at this photograph.
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wtfmate says:

I don't see what the big deal is. His dad died. So what? A lot of people die, every single day. Close to a million Iraqis have died because of Bush and Co. but also because of people such as this kid's dad. What more is our military than a bunch of trained murderers? How, at least in this case, is our military 'protecting' us when they're over killing Iraqis and babysitting another government? The only legitimate reason this kid should be crying is that his dad might have killed other people. War is just another example of Darwin's "Natural Selection." The people who join the military are duped into thinking they're fighting for something, for liberty, or freedom, when they're actually taking it away from foreign countries and dying in vain for this hateful cause. The people who see through this veil continue to live. And so evolution continues. Plain and simple.
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joneilortiz  Pro User  says:

Of course we all feel bad for the kid but at the same time we should recognize that the photo has a non-objective message or perspective written into it. And this perspective is in keeping with the government's strategic representation of military families as "restrained' and "in control" – or what BAGnewsNotes calls the "stiff upper lip." (See his excellent commentary on military family photos here.) Rarely, if ever, are families of the war dead shown in utter, unrestrained grief. That the subject of the photo is a young boy, who despite his youth manages to keep himself under control, is especially sinister. I mean, if he can, shouldn't anyone be able to stomach such a loss? The photo would perhaps be more truthful if it showed him just a few seconds later, when that resolute wall gave in to the tears and fury that surely better signify his loss.
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knoxlogic says:

WTFMATE - It is not that everybody dies everyday! Or whats the big deal? If thats the only way you look at this picture, then your an idiot! And I might not support the "WAR", but I damn support the troops and the CAUSE! because their is a GREAT CAUSE why we are over there. I would be honored to die for this great country USA if it where to keep 1 terrorist out of harming my kids, or another citizen. What amazes me, is when something happens and everybody screams LETS GO TO WAR, LETS GO GET THOSE F-ERS! yet, when 1 soldier dies b/c of it, everybody then screams - COME BACK, SCREW OUR PRESIDENT, WHAT ARE WE DOING OVER THERE, PEOPLE ARE DIEING! THIS WAR SUCKS!

People forget what this country had to go threw to become a free nation UNDER GOD! and who we are. The problem is there are so many damn snobish liberals and demos, and replubs out there, they think OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND! People today do not realize you must have great sacrifice to achieve something wonderful sometimes. We didn't get here (becoming the USA) by sitting on our asses and getting run over! It also states in the constitution that if we (NATION) have the ability to help somebody that needs it, then we are obligated to do so. People are so into MONEY and MATERIALS they don't believe that anymore!


I THINK THIS PICTURE IS AWESOME WHETHER YOU TOOK IT OR NOT! IT SAYS A WHOLE LOT! and what if this kid is EXTREMELY PROUD OF HIS FATHER and not pissed at why he died? YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS ASSUME THE WORST!
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.SarahElizabeth.  Pro User  says:

this sent shivers all over my body.

very very emotional capture.
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