Angry debate in US as agency releases picture of dying marine in Afghanistan

It is a graphic image of the harsh realities of war: the fatally wounded young marine lying crumpled in the mud, his vulnerable face turned to the camera. And it is one the US defence secretary would rather you did not see.

Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard, pictured being tended by comrades in southern Afghanistan, died of his injuries soon after. Now the release of this record of the 21-year-old’s last moments has divided America, prompting furious debate over the sanitisation of war at a critical time for the military offensive.

The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, condemned the decision by the news agency Associated Press to publish. “I cannot imagine the pain and suffering Lance Corporal Bernard’s death has caused his family. Why your organisation would purposefully defy the family’s wishes, knowing full well that it will lead to yet more anguish, is beyond me.

“Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image of their maimed and stricken child on the front page of multiple American newspapers is appalling.”

However, AP, whose photographer Julie Jacobson took the shot after being caught in the middle of an ambush while accompanying marines on patrol, said it had acted only after a “period of reflection” and argued that the picture illustrated the sacrifice and the bravery of those fighting in Afghanistan. “We feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there, however unpleasant and brutal that sometimes is,” said Santiago Lyon, the director of photography for AP.

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It was on September 11th 2001, (9/11) when a series of organized attacks was done by Al- Queda upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in America. Everyone was terrorized by this attacks just not American but entire human world. We have given here the quotes and pictures of 9/11.

9/11 quotes, 911 pictures

Here are several quotes by someone who had written ago, they were experts in the field, experienced loss & grief and survived are arranged in a specific sequence.
9/11 Quotes:

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
By: Leo Buscaglia

Whatever it is that I have lost (or must give up) I must grieve. If I do not do my grieving about the old hurts and insults, then, when I am faced with a here and now grief experience, I will end up having to dredge up all that old energy along with the current experience.