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Last Photographs, by Ashley Gilbertson
Topic: War on Terrorism 12:28 pm EDT, Jul  6, 2007

Click through for the pictures, I'm told; the writing is apparently somewhat hyperbolic. More photos here.

When I began reporting from Iraq in 2002, I was still a wild and somewhat naïve twenty-four-year-old kid. Five years later, I was battle-weary. I had been there longer than the American military and had kept returning long after most members of the “coalition of the willing” had pulled out. Iraq had become my initiation, my rite of passage, but instead of granting me a new sense of myself and a new identity, Iraq had become my identity. Without Iraq, I was nothing. Just another photographer hanging around New York. In Iraq, I had a purpose, a mission; I felt important. I didn’t want to go back, but I needed to—and for the worst possible reason: I wasn’t ready for it to end. After twelve months away, I had a craving that only Iraq could satisfy.

A rotting corpse is devoured by dogs after having lain there for at least nine days.

Last Photographs, by Ashley Gilbertson



 
 
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