From the Nov. '07 issue of Vanity Fair, an piece by Chris Hitchens: "A Death in the Family" - "Lieutenant (Mark) Daily crossed from Kuwait to Iraq in November 2006, where he would be deployed with the "C", or "Commanche," of Company of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment - General Custer's old outfit - in Mosul. On the 15th of January last, he was on patrol and noticed that the Humvee in front of him was not properly "up-armored" against I.E.D's. He insisted on changing places and taking a lead position in his own Humvee, and was shortly afterward hit by an enormous buried mine that packed a charge of some 1,500 pounds of high explosive." Daily, 3 other American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed. The photo is one of a series I took of a Humvee (without proper armor protection) I recently transported. It was off loaded and put into a large muddy field along side other destroyed Humvee's.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Shame on the Bush Administration...
From the Nov. '07 issue of Vanity Fair, an piece by Chris Hitchens: "A Death in the Family" - "Lieutenant (Mark) Daily crossed from Kuwait to Iraq in November 2006, where he would be deployed with the "C", or "Commanche," of Company of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment - General Custer's old outfit - in Mosul. On the 15th of January last, he was on patrol and noticed that the Humvee in front of him was not properly "up-armored" against I.E.D's. He insisted on changing places and taking a lead position in his own Humvee, and was shortly afterward hit by an enormous buried mine that packed a charge of some 1,500 pounds of high explosive." Daily, 3 other American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed. The photo is one of a series I took of a Humvee (without proper armor protection) I recently transported. It was off loaded and put into a large muddy field along side other destroyed Humvee's.
