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Dr. Nabil Habib prays before performing surgery on Staff Sgt. Daniel Barnes at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq.

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D

aniel Barnes sits in the cab of his Chevy pickup, one arm stretched over the steering wheel, staring dreamily into the distance as his oldest son plays soccer nearby.

“I never thought I’d be a soccer daddy, but I am,” he says. Barnes smiles, relishing the idea. But totems of troubled times never are far from view.

A blue handicapped parking placard, two metal dog tags and strings of turkey beard dangle within arm’s reach on his rearview mirror.

The placard was made possible by an Iraqi rocket-propelled grenade that blew off Barnes’ legs four months to the day after his best friend was killed in Iraq.

The stringy dark fiber, anchored to a spent green shotgun shell, came from a turkey Gavin Reinke shot in these parts in 2004.

When Barnes leans forward to get a better look at his 7-year-old son, Tobias, the short sleeves of a T-shirt he wears pull high to his shoulder blades, revealing a tattoo that says it all about two soldiers who took separate paths – one to Arlington National Cemetery, the other home but irreparably transformed.

Staff Sgt. Reinke Gavin B 4 May 06 Baghdad, Iraq.

With the war in Iraq about to enter its sixth year, Barnes has lost his best friend, his legs and his military career, but he’s alive. His tale is shared by a growing band of Iraq war veterans across the nation.

Barnes knows better than most that when soldiers die or come home broken, the world doesn’t stop. Those who survive go to soccer games, watch their kids play and engage in mundane

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But the everyday aspects of lives that once were ordinary become different somehow.

For those who don’t survive, the task of carrying on falls to wives, parents and children – and sometimes to friends who swore they’d look out for one another’s loved ones if something happened.

A San Antonio Express-News reporter and photographer first encountered Barnes in the emergency room of an Air Force hospital in Balad, Iraq, when he arrived there, gravely wounded, in September 2006. This story tracks the progress of his recovery.

Friendship formed Barnes’ wife and two sons had called Waynesville home for years. They came back to live in this small Ozark Mountain town in south-central Missouri, arriving in December after Barnes’ long rehabilitation at Brooke Army Medical Center.

They returned because they much prefer the country to the city. They’re also just a few miles from Reinke’s widow and daughter, among other close friends.

Barnes has made great progress thanks to the Army Medical Command at Fort Sam Houston, but it has no Rx for the void left by Reinke’s death. Tall, thin and quiet, described as an exceptional noncommissioned officer who put himself before his soldiers, Reinke befriended Barnes six years ago when they met at Fort Leonard Wood, just down the road from Waynesville.

They discovered a shared love of hunting and fishing in the region’s many creeks, rivers and woods. Their families often gathered for weekend barbecues, dining on the catch of the day or food from the latest hunting trip.

“He was with me when I shot my first turkey, he was with me the first time I shot a deer with a bow and arrow,” said Barnes, 30, originally from Little Falls, N.Y. “He was there when I almost cut my arm off.”

Emergency Room personal treat Barnes in the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq.

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He laughs, and so does his wife, Gretchen. A long and involved tale, like some of their hunting and fishing misadventures, the cut-arm story is a legend in two households.

Over time, as Barnes and Reinke bonded at home and in the war zone, their kids became fast friends. But when the war became serious, the two made a pledge: If one fell, the other would watch his family. And so it is that Barnes, the survivor, will guide 5-year-old Kayleigh Reinke on future fishing trips.

Fishing brings to mind another anecdote, and the Barneses chuckle as it’s told after dinner.

“I could remember they were going to go to Wal-Mart to buy a fishing pole, and he said, ‘No daughter of mine is going to have a Barbie pole!’ Gretchen said, referring to the pink fishing rods for children. “You’re going to have a real fishing pole.”

‘Throat was burning’ On Sept. 4, 2006, Barnes, who was a staff sergeant, and his troops were on a detail near Abu Ghraib in Baghdad, looking for roadside bombs called improvised explosive devices. They saw something and stopped. Then, in the time it takes to draw a breath or two, a fireball and deafening blast suddenly enveloped him.

“I remember my throat was burning really bad and I was really thirsty,” said Barnes, who was two weeks shy of his 29th birthday. “I knew that I was seriously hurt, and by the way my soldiers were acting I could tell that it was really bad.”

The journey that followed is familiar to thousands of wounded GIs -- first, a stop at an Army hospital in Baghdad; a short helicopter ride to an Air Force Level 1 trauma center in Balad, north of the Iraqi capital; and much longer flights to Germany and then home.

Staff Sgt. DANIEL BARNES goes to the gym to learn how to play wheelchair basketball at Fort Sam Houston. Sports offered Daniel a chance to regain normalcy.

As of Saturday, 3,988 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq, according to the Associated Press, and another

Picture by Chang Liang/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA

Barnes waits for the shuttle to go to dinner in Breckenridge, Colorado, with a group of Wounded Warriors.

Barnes spends the evening watching television with his two-year old son Jacob

Barnes gets pumped up to play sled hockey at the AT&T Center.

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29,395 have been wounded as of Friday, according to the Defense Department.

Soldiers are by far the most likely U.S. military personnel to be wounded in combat.

The Army has treated 752 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who lost limbs through Feb. 29, the majority of them missing one leg. Most of those with multiple amputations have been soldiers.

Barnes was one of the worst, losing his legs high above the knees. He was in such bad shape when brought to the Army’s 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad that doctors feared he would not make it to Texas.

He was stabilized and flown by helicopter to Balad, where he was awake when whisked into the emergency room at 5:25 a.m. Sept. 5.

“Doc?” he croaked. “Is everything all right, doc?”

There’s always a buzz of activity when a patient rolls into the Air Force hospital, a big dusty tent facility replaced last year by a building. A dozen people crowd around the trooper, some with IV lines in hand and others holding clipboards and plastic bags of blood. One tells Barnes that he’s going to receive a drug to dull his pain. A minute later, the medical team prepares to turn him over.

One, two, three! “Ohhhhhhhhh,” he cries.

A moment before the operation begins, a surgeon asks Barnes if he would like to pray.

The answer is whispered.

Dr. Nabil Habib takes his hand and bends over, talking softly. Two women on each side of Barnes, eyes closed, pray too.

The five-member OR team then prepares to move him once again. One, two, three!

“Oh, God!” Barnes groans.

“You with me?” asks the anesthesiologist,

DTzine.com 31 Dr. Jess Ross, an Army lieutenant colonel. “Take some deep breaths, OK? Deep, deep, deep.”

Barnes would remain on a ventilator because of damage to his lungs. The device and sedatives would help keep him still as he’s flown to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and then to Texas, over the next three days.

‘My babies, my babies’ Five days later, on a Sunday afternoon, Barnes woke at BAMC’s intensive care unit to see his wife in the room. His first thought: How had she gotten to Iraq?

“My babies, my babies,” he said, his hoarse voice almost a growl.

“He wanted to know his boys were OK,” she recalled. “Then he said he loved me and that he was sorry.”

Before Barnes left for his second tour, his first son, Tobias, who goes by Toby, kept asking questions: Would his dad shoot people? It was a natural thought, but things got a lot more complicated after Reinke’s death.

“Then he started to realize, ‘This could happen to me. My daddy’s over there,”’ Gretchen said. “I don’t know that he understood completely, but he understood enough to know that it was a lot worse than he had ever thought about.”

Barnes expected the worst for himself after Reinke was killed and would always say a prayer before starting a mission, asking Reinke to watch out for him.

“I had a feeling, maybe not that night.

But anytime I rolled out (of) the gate after my best friend was killed I thought that something was going to happen, and it was a matter of when and what was going to happen, and how bad was it going to be.”

It was supposed to be a relatively short work night, one his men expected to clear in time for midnight chow. They knew, however, it was a bad area; only the night before, insurgents had fired at

them, but missed.

Barnes, in the lead vehicle, saw a box in the road. Roadside bombs come in many forms in Iraq, from boxes to dead animals, but his crew opted to pass it.

Another truck followed before a third crew stopped, inspected the box and crushed it.

“Clear!” a soldier called out.

Then came the telltale whoosh of a rocked-propelled grenade and a terrific explosion, followed by darkness. It was about 11 p.m.

Saved, but barely “I can’t even describe the smell, it was so disgusting,” Barnes said. “There was a mixture of everything – ammunition, explosives, metal, burning flesh.” His soldiers were yelling, trying to reach him. Quick-thinking comrades strapped two tourniquets on his shattered legs.

Barnes fell in and out of consciousness, and he recalls hearing the whup-whupwhup of an approaching UH-60 Black Hawk -- and Reinke’s voice.

Four months earlier, when word broke that there had been an attack on Reinke’s Bravo Company, Barnes was about to go on guard duty. He took one sergeant aside and asked which platoon had been hit.

The sergeant begged off and walked to his room, but Barnes wouldn’t let it go.

Finally, the sergeant looked him in the eye and shook his head.

Barnes was stunned. A few days later, he found himself speaking at a memorial service.

“I just talked about him and talked about how he was as a soldier, as a father, as a husband, as a brother. I don’t really remember everything I said. I think I said towards the end, I thanked him for being my friend, and I’ll never have another friend like you,” he said.

The explosion that wounded Barnes left him with multiple fractures and extensive vascular injuries in both limbs,

Barnes waits for therapy at the Center For The Intrepid.

Barnes does the backstroke at the Center For The Intrepid. He says swimming is a good form of therapy because it feels more like a regular gym.

DTzine.com 37 and he was in stage 4 hemorrhagic shock -- the last stage before death. Dr. Sumeru Mehta, an Army major now at BAMC, saw that his skin was almost white.

“He was basically on the razor’s edge between living and dying. He could have gone either way,” said Mehta, 36, of San Antonio. “The only thing that had saved his life was that the (soldiers) on the scene placed tourniquets on his legs.”

Back in Missouri, Gretchen was spared the ritual visit from casualty assistance, but what she saw still sent shivers down her spine. A captain and first sergeant from the rear detachment of her husband’s unit arrived wearing camouflage fatigues. Carole Reinke, the widow of her husband’s best friend, was with them.

Gretchen opened the door. “I don’t want you here at all!” she screamed.

Awaiting answers As Barnes was flown to BAMC, his wife packed some clothes and took Toby and baby son Jacob to San Antonio. Her parents lived in Marion, just 25 miles from Fort Sam, where she’d graduated from high school in 1996. Her job, stay-at-home mom in Missouri, was on hold. The new task, bringing Daniel back from the brink, was fraught with trouble from the start.

The memory of Gavin Reinke was never far from Toby, who had seen the ritual of death played out in Reinke’s home -the spate of phone calls, friends paying their respects and other visitors coming with food in hand. Now a similar scene unfolded in Missouri, days before they flew to Texas.

“He was very unsure,” Gretchen said. “’My daddy’s dead.’ ‘No, your daddy’s not dead; your daddy got hurt.”’

She, too, grappled with a host of uncertainties. In the days after the attack, while she waited to see her husband, the absence of information had prompted her to wonder if he had been burned.

He was, after all, coming to BAMC,

Checkmate

Malashri Kamble, 16 (left) and Saraswati Patil, 11, play chess at their hostel at Vimochana Sangha’s school for the children of Devadasis in Malabad. Kamble’s mother was a Devadasi who died at a young age and Kamble was recruited for the school by a social worker when she was 10 years old.

Barnes helps load the U-Haul at his north side home.

After a year of rehabilitation in San Antonio, Barnes moved back to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.

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home of the famed Army burn center.

The thought that the military wasn’t telling her everything bounced around her head. Sleep came in fits, four to five hours a night.

“I imagined the worst.”

New lives A first-grader, Toby went to school in Marion and then in Northeast San Antonio. Starting over in two new schools in less than six weeks took its toll on the boy. His grades fell and he became more difficult in class.

Slowly, Daniel Barnes began to rebound.

His skin, though still pale, was better than it had been in Baghdad and Balad, and his energy was coming back.

A few weeks after losing his legs, Barnes rolled his wheelchair onto a Fort Sam basketball court. He lined up for a layup but threw an air ball, as did many others.

Ask him about it, and he’ll tell you that Gavin Reinke was with him through it all -- seven operations at BAMC and 14 months of therapy.

“In one surgery, I remember he was there telling me, ‘Everything’s OK, just relax, everything’s going to be fine.’ I could hear him saying it to me.”

Rehabilitation went far beyond Fort Sam.. Along with his fellow wounded soldiers, Barnes went on a ski trip to Colorado and a hunting excursion in Alaska – where he shot a bear – and took scuba diving lessons.

Trips such as these were partly a tribute to heroes and a way of helping them heal. But leaving the privacy of Fort Sam, a closed post, carried risks.

“Kids, you can pretty much guarantee they’re going to be honest,” Gretchen said. “They say, ‘Hey, mom! That guy has no legs!”

Parents, she added, have said, “Shhhhhh!

Don’t ask!”

DTzine.com 40 For a while, the whispers made Barnes feel odd -- as if it wasn’t OK to look at him.

“We’re used to it now,” his wife said.

“Maybe people are still looking at him and it doesn’t bother us. He doesn’t notice it’s happening.”

House cost ‘two legs’ A few miles up a series of winding gravel and asphalt roads that overlook the Pulaski County Courthouse on historic U.S. Route 66 and Waynesville’s worn downtown, the Barnes family is starting over.

They’ve got a big house -- two bedrooms downstairs, three upstairs, a family room, a craft room and a deck with a breathtaking view. Once, when asked how much it cost, Barnes couldn’t resist indulging in a one-liner that left the questioner speechless.

“Two legs,” he quipped.

A land of seasons, good friends, fishing, hunting and tranquility, Waynesville is the balm for a terrible ordeal, the upscale house high on a wooded ridge near the Mark Twain National Forest , not just home but a sanctuary.

At nearly 4,000 square feet, it cost $268,000, one-fifth of that covered by a government grant to make it accessible to a person with Barnes’ disability. The doors of the home are wide enough to accommodate his wheelchair, as are the entryways and the bathrooms.

All he has to do is roll in.

Barnes has a 100 percent veterans’ disability rating but works as a civilian combat developer for the Army. Details about the job are classified, except that he works from 7 to 3, Monday through Friday, with no likelihood of deploying to Iraq again.

Ironically, Barnes sees his family more now than he did as an NCO. He’s back from work in time to take Toby to soccer practice. Then, like clockwork, home for dinner with the family.

Barnes is given to second helpings

Barnes kisses his son, Tobias, goodnight in their Waynesville Missouri home. Barnes is now medically retired and is enjoying having more time to devote to his young family.

DTzine.com 44 at the dinner table, but it isn’t only the food he is digesting with zeal. On Thursday night, hot jambalaya filled the skillet Gretchen Barnes put down before them.

“I ate all my lunch at school today,” Toby yelled from another part of the house.

“What did you eat for lunch?” his dad called back.

There was no reply.

“Get up here so we can pray,” Barnes ordered a moment later.

The family gathered around, father at the head, wife to his right, Toby and Jacob, now 2, across from each other.

They prayed, their voices a low chorus.

It took no time at all for Jacob to leave the table. He turned up minutes later wearing a stuffed dog with a light blue blanket over his head.

Toby, still at the table, put one on, too.

“Jacob, wiggle your head!” he laughed.

He did, the dog in the blanket falling to the hardwood floor, where it stayed.

“Goofy No. 1 and Goofy No. 2,” Gretchen announced, “we’re eating dinner.”

This is Daniel Barnes’ life, the one he almost didn’t have – the one his best friend lost. He never has to look far to know how things might have been.

“I get to spend more time with my kids and enjoy it more, and then also you look at it – I guess how close I came and how close you can come from not being able to see it,” Barnes said. “So when I see them happy or having fun, you know I just realize.”

The words trail off.

“You really can’t put in words how it feels,” he finally says. “I can’t describe the feeling, really.” DT

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Barnes watches his son Tobias at soccer practice from the cab of his truck

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Dark Christmas

Picture by Nikos Pilos/ZUMA

Dec. 15, 2008 - Athens, Greece - Only a couple of streets away from the riots - consumers are continuing their day, despite the hostile graffiti behind them. A 16-year-old with a bullet in his heart was enough to ‘postpone Christmas this year’ for many Greeks. A wave of protests hit Greek cities soon after the teen was shot dead.

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The Gift of Love

Picture by Robert Ghement/EPA

Dec. 21, 2008 - Bucharest, Romania - Two young Romanians, dressed up as Santa Claus, kiss. They are taking part in an attempt to break the World Record in front of the Parliament Palace. After about three hours the old record was beaten, as 3,939 people have been counted as ‘the biggest number of Santa Claus to deliver gifts’ by the Guiness World Records observer.

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Santa I Want...

Picture by Paolo Aguilar/EFE

Dec. 23, 2008 - Lima, Peru - Neron the police dog, played Santa for his crew.

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Why

Picture by Fady Adwan/ZUMA

Dec. 27, 2008 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Palestinian men cry over the body of a Hamas policeman outside the Hamas police headquarters following an Israeli air strike.

205 were killed, in retaliation for ongoing Hamas rockets fired into Israel. Resulting in one of the bloodiest days of the decades-long Middle East conflict.

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Santa From Hell

Picture by Gene Blevins//ZUMA

Dec. 28, 2008 - Covina, California, U.S. - People come by to visit the site and remember the nine victims who were killed during the Covina Christmas Eve Santa massacre.

Nine people were killed by Bruce Pardo. Pardo, dressed as Santa Claus, burst into a Christmas Eve party at his ex-wife’s parents’ home, shooting everyone possible and then setting the house on fire. Pardo then shortly afterwards took his life, with a shot to the head at his brother’s home about 25 miles (40km) away.

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Abu Ghraib Elementary

Picture by John Goodman/ZUMA

Dec. 31, 2008 - Baghdad, Iraq - Iraqi boys attend class in a school building currently being reconstructed by the U.S. Army Civil Affairs in Abu Ghraib.

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Good Hands Club

Picture by Michael Goulding/The Orange County Register

Jan. 1, 2009 - Pasadena, California, U.S. - Penn State University offensive tackles head to field before the start of the 95th. Rose Bowl, USC vs. Penn State.

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Bowling for Skiers Jan. 03, 2009 - Changchun, Jilin, China - Ice bowling game at Chinese ski resort.

Picture by Chen Linhua/Imaginechina

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Family Disaster

Picture by Mohammed Saber/EPA

Jan. 06, 2009 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Palestinians carry the body of a girl, from the rubble of her destroyed house after an Israeli missile hit her house.

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Weapons of Mass Destruction

Picture by Mohammed Saber/EPA

Jan. 07, 2009 - Jabaliya, Gaza Strip - Four young members of the Deeb family are wrapped up for their funeral in the refugee camp of Jablaliya. Israeli missiles struck near a UN run school and killed 43 Palestinians, ten of them from the Deeb family.

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Snowy Flamingos Jan. 04, 2009 - Halle, Germany - Flamingos huddle in the snow at Bergzoo.

Picture by Steffen Schellhorn/Imago

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Economy Blues

Picture by Shawn Thew/EPA

Jan. 08, 2009 - Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. - U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama walks on stage to deliver a speech on the Economy at George Mason University. Obama warned that unless ‘dramatic action’ is taken quickly it may be too late to pull the economy out of a recession that could last for years.

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Deadly Quake

Picture by Jorge Castillo/GDA

Jan. 08, 2009 - San Jose, Costa Rica - Shortly, after an earthquake measuring six on the Richter Scale levels large parts of San Jose, Magdalena Diaz comforts a woman who lost family members.

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Really Cheap Plates

Picture by Sun Mingshan/Color China Photos

Jan. 15, 2009 - Cangzhou, Hebei, China - Policemen check for counterfeit car licence plates during a campaign to crack down on the illegal vehicles.

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Emergency

Picture by Xinhua/ZUMA

Jan. 15, 2009 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - A man rushes a wounded boy to a hospital after an Israeli air attack.

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Yeehaw!

Picture by Alessandro Di Meo/EPA

Jan. 17, 2009 - Vatican City - A group of ‘Butteri’ ride on horses during the traditional celebration of Saint Anthony the Great, on Saint Peter’s square. A buttero is a shepherd or cowboy in the region of Maremma, in Tuscany in the Northern Latium and in the Pontine Marshes. On the day of Saint Anthony the Great for the benediction of the animals, they parade in the centers of many villages in Italy.

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Strolling Into History With a Million of My Closest Friends

Picture by Paul Morse/ZUMA

Jan. 20, 2008 - Washington, District of Columbia, USA - President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walk down Pennsylvania Avenue during the inaugural parade, blocks form their new home, The White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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OBAMA Inauguration January 20, 2009 - Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. 1. In the shadow of the Washington Monument and the nearby White House, crowds gathered around a jumbo video guration. Picture by David Stephenson/Lexington Herald-Leader 2. U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at his inauguration address on the West Front of the Capitol.

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3. Tree branches yielded better vantage points for those who couldn’t find a spot on the ground at Obama’s inauguration. Picture by John Burgess/Santa Rosa Press Democrat 4. Barack Obama smiles before he takes the oath as the 44th president of the United States of America. Picture by Zhang Yan/Xinhua

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Face of a Nation

Pictures by Romain Blanquart/Detroit Free Press

Jan. 20, 2009 - Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. - As the crowd gathered Tuesday on the National Mall, for the inauguration, Detroit Free Press staff photographer Romain Blanquart carried a half-mask cutout of Obama’s face and sought volunteers to pose for a portrait.

Blanquart wanted to know: Is there a little bit of Obama in you?

Brittany Fillmore, 21 of Auburn Hills, Michigan

R.J. Tacia, 21 of Auburn Hills, Michigan

Ames Olekszyk, 22, of Auburn Hills, Michigan

Lauren Tenney, 21 of Auburn Hills, Michigan

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Joe Payne, 19 of Canton, Ohio

Matalie Hanson, 25 of Washington D.C.

Nefertiti Opoku, 27 of Lithonia, Georgia

Romain Blanquart, Detroit Free Press staff photographer on the National Mall for Obama’s inauguration, wearing a half-mask cutout of Barack Obama’s face.

Kodak Moment

Picture by Brian Baer/Sacramento Bee

Jan. 20, 2009 - Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. - Every camera in the room is on the couple of the moment President Barack Obama and his wife First Lady Michelle Obama, as they dance at the Western Ball, held at the DC Convention Center. Michelle wore a stylish, white dress by Jason Wu.

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Long Road Home

Picture by Qiu Feng/Color China Photos

Jan. 23, 2009 - Mianyang, Sichuan, China - A disabled 2008 Sichuan quake survivor walks to mourn for a fellow victim. The May 12, 2008 quake killed 90,000.

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A Girl in the Window

Picture by Zhang Ning/Xinhua

Jan. 23, 2009 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - A girl looks out of the window of a building destroyed in Israeli military operations in Zitton, in southern Gaza City.

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Oh My God

Picture by John McCoy/Los Angeles Daily News

Jan. 25, 2009 - Los Angeles , California, U.S. - Rosario Dawson and Teri Hatcher share a moment and a big laugh during arrivals at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Bye Bye Alexy

Picture by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA

Jan. 27, 2009 - Moscow, Russia - A devout Russian Orthodox holds a portrait of his late patriarch Alexy II in front of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral. Inside the all-Church council, has to elect a new Patriarch of Moscow and Russia.

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Love Your Smile

Picture by Achim Scheidemann/DPA

Jan. 30, 2009 - Duesseldorf, Germany - A photographer has a close look at a photo of Cindy Crawford by Zurich-born photographer Michel Comte at the North Rhine Westfalian Forum for Culture and Economy. The exhibition ‘Michel Comte - 360 degrees’ shows works of the photographer who specialised in portraits and fashion.

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Spinning Worlds Jan. 29, 2009 - West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. - The South Florida Fair lights up the sky.

Picture by Allen Eyestone/Palm Beach Post

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The Play of the Game

Picture by Justin Lane/EPA

Feb. 01, 2009 - Tampa, Florida, U.S. - Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison (L) collapses in the end zone, after running for a 100-yard interception return for a touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals, in the second quarter of Super Bowl XLIII at Raymond James Stadium.

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Birdman

Picture by Willie J. Allen Jr./St. Petersburg Times

Feb. 01, 2009 - Tampa, Florida, U.S. - Hard core Cardinals fan Dan Loerch alias ‘Cardana’, from Phoenix, Arizona, decided to take a last minute flight from Phoenix to watch the Super Bowl XLIII between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Global Warming

Picture by Frantzesco Kangaris/EPA

Feb. 02, 2009 - London, England, United Kingdom - A woman wearing only underwear poses for a photographer near the London Eye. Heavy snowfall affected large parts of the UK, disrupting travel and closing thousands of schools as forecasters warn of more to come.

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License and Registration Plz

Picture by Anne Wall/DPA

Feb. 09, 2009 - Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany - A policeman escorts a zebra that broke out of a circus. Four zebras broke out and wandered around the city before they were recaptured.

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Lo-Rider

Picture by Michael Goulding/The Orange County Register

Feb. 9, 2009 - Seal Beach, California, U.S. - Jacob Levine, 3, of Seal Beach, enjoys his own point of view, while experiencing the joy of skateboarding.

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Big Chavez Supporter

Picture by David Fernandez/EFE

Feb. 12, 2009 - Caracas,Venezuela - A follower of Venezuelan President Chavez, shows her support.

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Friday the 13th

Picture by Mast Irham/EPA

Feb. 13, 2009 - Jatiluhur, Indonesia - An Indonesian worker checks dead fish at a breeding pond in Jatiluhur water reservoir, in West Java. The mass death of the fish is due to a lack of oxygen caused by a sudden change of weather condition.

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Copter Ballet

Picture by Jagadeesh/EPA

Feb. 14, 2009 - Bangalore, India - The Indian Air Force aerobatic team ‘Sarang’ display their skills with helicopters at the Yelahanka Air Force Station.

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Taking The Bull by The Horns Feb. 16, 2009 - Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China - Chinese bullfighting, a traditional activity in Zhejiang Province.

Picture by Chu Yongzhi/ChinaFotoPress

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Catchers and Pitchers Report

Picture by Jerry Holt/Star Tribune

Feb. 16, 2009 - Fort Myers, Florida, U.S. - A dash of sunlight dazzles at Hammond Stadium as Twins pitcher Joe Nathan threw a baseball in first day of Twins spring training.

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Star Wars

Picture by M.A.Pushpa Kumara/EPA

Feb. 20, 2009 - Colombo, Sri Lanka - Search lights and tracers looking for more Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) light aircraft. Earlier, one aircraft was shot down by the Sri Lanka Air Force near its base at Katunayake and the wreckage and pilot’s body were recovered. The other reached Colombo before it was shot and crash landed on a government tax office building. 47 were injured and two killed in the incidents.

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Burnt

Picture by Rolex Dela Pena/EPA

Feb. 23, 2009 - Pasay City, Philippines - A Filipino looks over burned homes. Close to 100 families lost their homes during a fire that broke out before midnight.

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Tasmanian Suicide

Picture by John Nievaart/ZUMA

Mar. 2, 2009 - Naracoopa Beach, Kings Island, Tasmania, Australia - 194 pilot whales and six or seven bottlenose dolphins lay stranded on Naracoopa Beach..

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Happy Birthday Barbie

Picture by Zhong Yang/Imaginechina

Mar. 05, 2009 - Shanghai, China - A young Chinese woman poses in front of wall paintings of Barbie dolls in the Barbie concept store. Barbie turns 50 next week.

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The Path of Light

Picture by Mojgan Ramezani/ZUMA

Mar. 10, 2009 - Shoosh, Iran - A young Iranian female pilgrim prays in front of a destroyed tank. Thousands go annually on Rahian-e Nour (Travelers of the Path of Light) Tours.These caravans, filled with relatives of the Iranian victims, visit the Iran-Iraq War or First Persian Gulf War front lines. Iranians from all over the country come, to see places where their husbands and sons died between 1980 and 1988, paying respect to there lost family.

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Matrix

Picture by Jochen Luebke/DPA

Mar. 12, 2009 - Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany - A multitude of new Golf VI stacked at a Volkswagen delivery center.

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Apopalyptic

Picture by UPPA/ZUMA

Mar. 12, 2009 - London, England, United Kingdom - A woman looks at ‘AK-47’, a piece in the Mauro Perucchetti exhibition ‘Apopalyptic’ at the Halyon Gallery.

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Housing Puzzle

Picture by Gorm Kallestad/EPA

Mar. 13, 2009 - Namsos, Norway - An aerial view after a landslide destroyed several houses northwest of Trondheim. Seven people were rescued from the area by helicopter.

The landslide, which took place shortly before noon, hit at least six houses and three cabins as well as some parked cars.The accident occurred following some blasting in connection with roadworks in the area.

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Deadly Alum

Picture by Ronald Wittek/DPA

Mar. 15, 2009 - Wendlingen am Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany - Chalk marks the site where Tim Kretschmer, 17, killed himself during a shootout with authorities, outside a car dealership. This was the end of his shooting spree. 16 dead, including the suicide of the perpetrator. 112 rounds were shot from a Beretta 92FS (a semiautomatic pistol)9mm A alumni of the Winnenden Albertville-Realschule school one year earlier.

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body parts Mar. 15, 2009 - Los Angeles, California, U.S. - American Apparel is super successful despite the crisis.

Picture by Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA

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Walk on the wild side

Picture by Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA

Mar. 15, 2009 - Hollywood, California, U.S. - The economic numbers show a stalled economy. Predictionsa for next quarter are not any better..

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Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s 14th annual Festival of Photography and Digital Imaging

Jan. 27 - 31, 2009 Delray Beach, FL

Photos by ©Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press

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Feb., 5-5, 2009 Charlotte, NC

Photos by ©Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press

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Pierre Pankotay Founder/CEO WorldAssingment.com

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Photos by ©Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press

True Cost of

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Pictures by © Tammi Silico/ZUMA

On Apr. 9, 2004, in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Maytag Aircraft Corporation cargo worker Tami Silicio made a historic image, a classic example of the power of citizen journalism.

Silicio had seen a lot over the years, doing the support cargo work during many military conflicts. But on Apr. 9, she was stopped in her tracks by what she felt that day. Up until that day, the war in Iraq had not hit home for her and many others, but that day changed everything. The Battle of Fallujah was raging and the number of coffins coming through Kuwait was increasing daily. The flag-draped coffins of 21 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq that week were being carefully strapped down and checked prior to being returned to the United States aboard military transport aircraft.

Greatly moved, Silicio got her camera.

“Everyone salutes with such emotion and intensity and respect,” said Silicio at the time.

“The families would be proud to see their sons and daughters saluted like that.” She was struck by the amount of esteem that the soldiers’ remains received from all who were involved in returning them home.

The following Sunday, the Seattle Times took the bold step of running Silicio’s picture on their front page, a move that flew in the face of the 1991 White House ban on publishing images of U.S. soldiers’ coffins or burials.

Silicio’s image, represented exclusively by ZUMA Press, would go on to run on the front page of over 50 newspapers around the world, Time magazine, as well as scores of other media.

“That picture was compassion, not politics.

We need to know the true cost of war. The more we know the true cost, the sooner it will end,” said Silicio. On Feb. 26, 2009, the Obama administration changed White House policy so that media were no longer forbidden to publish images of the coffins or burials of U.S. soldiers. DT Silicio now lives in her hometown of Seattle.

Text by Scott Mc Kiernan

Photograph from Wayne F. Miller: Photographs1942–1958

WAYNE F. MILLER PhotogRAPhs 1942–1958

Edited by stephen Daiter Essay by Kerry tremain Introduction by Fred Ritchin Afterword by Paul Berlanga Additional commentary by gordon Parks and Amy Dru stanley

IsBN 978-1-57687-462-2 $55.00

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