I Saw This Pic Today.

[kpete]

MON MAY 28, 2012 AT 10:51 PM PDT
I Saw This Pic Today.
by webranding


It made me cry. Uncontrollable crying. The wife in the picture just said she wanted to spend another night beside her husband.

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MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/29/1095516/-I-Saw-This-Pic-Today-

[progressoid]

1. “I think that’s what he would have wanted.”

The night before the burial of her husband’s body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of “Cat,” and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. “I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it,” she said. “I think that’s what he would have wanted.”

http://indeliblephotos.com/todd-heisler-of-rocky-mountain-news-winner-of-2006



More:

Visions of the Decade: Todd Heisler’s “Final Salute” (7 Photos)

http://www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2010/01/3347



All photos © Todd Heisler/Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved.

Todd Heisler’s “Final Salute” was named by PDNOnline readers one of the most influential photo essays of the past ten years in a survey conducted for PDN’s Visions of the Decade issue. While a staff photographer at the Rocky Mountain News, Heisler (now at The New York Times) spent a year documenting the work of Major Steve Beck and the Marine Honor Guard who handle family notifications and the funerals of Marines killed during the Iraq War. At a time when the Pentagon barred photographers from covering the return of military caskets to Dover Air Force Base, Heisler’s “Final Salute” provided a rare and intimate look at the dignity of military funeral rites.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Man, that picture says so much.

PB

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I am glad that the Marines allowed her to do that.

[datasuspect]

4. i'd rather have an assload of student loans

then any "opportunity" the military can offer.

and for all those masses of kids in bumfuck uhhhmerica - hang in there, try something, try anything. stay the FUCK away from goddamn military recruiters. they are parasitic ghouls.

[Life Long Dem]

5. I couldn't do that.

Dead is dead. Seems selfish.

[Fumesucker]

8. The selfish ones are the politicians that send kids off to die for their own benefit..

We've got nothing as a nation out of Iraq or Afghanistan except blood, sweat and tears but plenty of politicians have made their careers and their fortunes off sending our children out to slaughter and be slaughtered.

I for one will never forgive them as long as I draw breath.

[Odin2005]

6. !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R