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The Solider The black and white photograph’s lack of color provides a sense of connection to a time long since past. It tells a tale of times best forgotten. Three dead bodies lie cold on the beach and a lone American solider covered with mud, stands with his back to the camera with a gun in hand, possibly contemplating his irreversible deed. The bodies lie cold and motionless in the rising tide, slowly being …

…had to leave behind the people that cared about them, had to feel all the pain of knowing that they were going to war. Would I be able to kill? This photograph reached out to me with all of the life that the bodies lacked, it beckoned me to think, to realize the ugliness of death. And in just a fraction of moment, all of these questions raced through me, feelings surged, and life froze.