WARNING :GRAPHIC

[ypsiguy]

http://www.worldpressphoto.com/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=875&Itemid=146&bandwidth=high

I am at a loss for words.

[LynneSin]

1. Heartbreaking - I'm so glad she stuck with him

:cry:

[SharonRB]

2. Someone posted the photo on DU the other night

It's so horribly sad.

[goddess40]

3. Is that real?

How sad if it is, the bride doesn't look too happy.

[seabeyond]

5. not a lot of joy i that picture for a wedding day, is there. n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Read about it all down post from here

Renee, the bride, is happy.

[AndyA]

4. I'm speechless.

Such destruction * has wrought on us.

How anyone can delay putting a stop to this madness is beyond me.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Here's the story behind the photo--very intense and worth reading

http://www.thetrukstop.com/articles/2007/story_behind_the_photo.html

[ypsiguy]

8. Thank you for posting

this additional link. This is a very moving story that most Americans will never read.

[w8liftinglady]

9. you need to see all the pictures in the album

http://archive.reduxpictures.com/Production/PhotoGroupView.aspx?pbid=4&msa=1&pgid=6415897&ipp=24

[Burma Jones]

10. Guys like this is why I love to work for the USMC

And why I seethe with disgust at the chickenhawks that sent guys like this to Iraq. This is why Doug Feith and his ilk should be criminally liable for their lies.....

Some words from Senator Webb's SOTU response are appropriate....

Like so many other Americans, today and throughout our history, we serve and have served, not for political reasons, but because we love our country. On the political issues - those matters of war and peace, and in some cases of life and death - we trusted the judgment of our national leaders. We hoped that they would be right, that they would measure with accuracy the value of our lives against the enormity of the national interest that might call upon us to go into harm's way.

We owed them our loyalty, as Americans, and we gave it. But they owed us - sound judgment, clear thinking, concern for our welfare, a guarantee that the threat to our country was equal to the price we might be called upon to pay in defending it.

The President took us into this war recklessly. He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two former commanding generals of the Central Command, whose jurisdiction includes Iraq, the director of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many, many others with great integrity and long experience in national security affairs. We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable - and predicted - disarray that has followed.

The war's costs to our nation have been staggering. Financially. The damage to our reputation around the world. The lost opportunities to defeat the forces of international terrorism. And especially the precious blood of our citizens who have stepped forward to serve.