Words Unspoken Are Rendered on War’s Faces

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Source: New York Times

A photograph of Sgt. Joseph Mosner from Nina Berman's photographs of Iraq veterans at Jen Bekman Gallery. More Photos

By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: August 22, 2007

One of the more shocking photographs to emerge from the current Iraq war was taken last year in a rural farm town in the American Midwest. It’s a studio portrait by the New York photographer Nina Berman of a young Illinois couple on their wedding day.

he bride, Renee Kline, 21, is dressed in a traditional white gown and holds a bouquet of scarlet flowers. The groom, Ty Ziegel, 24, a former Marine sergeant, wears his dress uniform, decorated with combat medals, including a Purple Heart. Her expression is unsmiling, maybe grave. His, as he looks toward her, is hard to read: his dead-white face is all but featureless, with no nose and no chin, as blank as a pullover mask.

Two years earlier, while in Iraq as a Marine Corps reservist, Mr. Ziegel had been trapped in a burning truck after a suicide bomber’s attack. The heat melted the flesh from his face. At Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas he underwent 19 rounds of surgery. His shattered skull was replaced by a plastic dome, and a face was constructed more or less from scratch with salvaged tissue, holes left where his ears and nose had been.

Photo here Not posted for reasons of extreme gruesome image

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Another example why Puppet War Criminal Patraeus and Gangster Cheney want the US to stay for corporate profits

[Javaman]

1. ...

:cry:

Those poor soldiers.

We as a nation are going to be paying this debt to the world for a long time.

Slowly, I'm beginning to understand how average Germans felt after WWII.

A defeated nation with the legacy of wounded as a daily reminder of a mad mans folly.

[saigon68]

2. Yes this post was exiled to this location

The photo is OUTRAGEOUS

[w8liftinglady]

3. We need to be reminded of the horror of war.

Too many people forget that there are a few people sacrificing all,while the rest of us are unaffected.

[saigon68]

4. HERE IS THE PHOTO