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As Memorial Day Nears, a Single Image That Continues to Haunt - NYTimes.com
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Taken by the photographer Todd Heisler from his 2005 award-winning series for The Rocky Mountain News, Jim Comes Home which documents the return and burial of Second Lt. Jim Cathey of the Marines, who lost his life in Iraq the photo shows his pregnant widow, Katherine, lying on an air mattress in front of his coffin. Shes staring at her laptop, listening to songs that remind her of Jim. Her expression is vacant, her grief almost palpable.
It is impossible to be unmoved by the juxtaposition of the eternal stone-faced warrior and the disheveled modern military wife-turned-widow, him rigid in his dress uniform, her on the floor in her blanket nest, wearing glasses and a baggy T-shirt, him nearly concealed by shadow while the pale blue light from the computer screen illuminates her like Gods own grace.
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Two parents lost their son, a wife lost her husband, an unborn child lost his father, and a handful of average citizens saw just how seriously the military treats a fallen warriors final trip home.