What it does is show — in a very unequivocal and direct fashion — are the real consequences of war, involving in this case a U.S. Marine, and that becomes very personal and very direct in some way, because we have a name, we have a home town, we have a shared nationality and we have, to a certain extent, a shared culture and some common values. So I think it really becomes a very immediate visual record of warfare that, in and of itself, is compelling, and that becomes more compelling because of its rarity. - Santiago Lyon, the director of photography at the A.P.
Why should this be a rarity when over 4300 human beings like this have died in Iraq and over 800 human beings have died in Afghanistan?
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