Memorializing
As carefully as "Staff Sgt. Miguel Deynes prepares a final uniform for Capt. Aaron R. Blanchard," I'm drawn as much or more to the hanging uniforms and the racks of pink circles containing different insignias and medals.
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Woolwich: All That Confusion Over Michael Adebolajo's Soldier Cool
What's so novel and unique about the footage is how this man looked and sounded so rational, even deferential and slightly apologetic after butchering the British soldier.
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Military Sexual Harassment Pic of the Day: The West Point Student Body
Talking about the military's latest sexual harassment black eye, I was wondering what you thought of the photo accompanying yesterday's NYT story about female cadets at West Point being taped surreptitiously in the shower?
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Photo Update/NRA Annual Meeting '13: Guns in the Hands of Babes
Looking at the Reuters' edit, at least one visual story line is coming through strong and clear from the NRA's annual meeting in Houston.
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Seattle May Day Riot Commandos: What Looks Different
What Richard Reid did for the sneaker, it looks like the Tsarnaev brothers have done for the backpack.
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Alan Chin from Watertown, MA: Endgame at 67 Franklin Street
Inside the police perimeter on Franklin Street it was hushed and quiet, with only the sound of generators powering the metal halide arc lights and a flight of bats rustling tree branches on what would return soon to simply a chilly spring night.
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Korea Pics of the Week: Paper Tiger vs. Bloody Tiger
There aren't two other photos from the extensive collection this week that better represent the extreme ends of the N. Korea threat spectrum.
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Women Who Expect One Thing and Get Another
Lately, I've been thinking about themes and patterns in the river of photos flowing through the news web.
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Your Turn: Hispanic Values
A bit of a far cry from: "looking for a few good men," wouldn't you say?
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The U.S./Korea War Pageant
Even if the threat from N. Korea is just posturing, Pyongyang's "declaration of war" in this internet age has set off a full-scale rhetorical engagement and intense visual confrontation.
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Yuri Kozyrev from Afghanistan: The U.S. Fade
I'm certainly curious how that tonal strategy relates to America's previously burning patriotic and nationalistic fires.
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Deploying Drones in the Homeland …and the Biggest Fear's the Budget?
Tailoring the story toward economics, the edit banks hard around the militarization and instead takes dead aim at budget strife.
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Feeling Railroaded by Guns, Survivalists, Domestic Terror?
With gun control facing an uphill battle in Congress and the NYT running a feature today about more coziness between the gun lobby and Congress, I was thinking about the meaning of this newswire survivalist photo.
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Talking Primeval Blood Rituals: Women Soldiers Matching Grit With Men
As the number of women participating in exercises like these increases, it will become more difficult to justify gender segregation in the military and other spheres.
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Teaching Women the 1000 Yard Stare
It's interesting how much differently we might look at a picture given where we are along the "equality trajectory.
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Lynsey Addario: Simply Women Soldiers in Afghanistan
Coming upon this U.S. soldier in Afghanistan at the end of Lynsey Addario's NYT Lens slideshow/interview, I was surprised my reaction was so utilitarian.
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Getty’s Somodevilla: Drones in the Air on Capitol Hill
What goes around comes around?
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A Drone is a Drone is a Drone?
I have to wonder if this cover is actually going too far for freezing a targeting killing machine over one of America's fine planned communities.
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