It’s one thing to see any of the countless photos from Iraq, showing troops in all kinds of activities.  They’re commonplace, spread all over the newspaper, the internet, the television – snippets of time in a foreign place, a distinctly different pinpoint in time. 

Definitely not here.

It’s quite another to hold in your hands a photo taken by the person sitting next to you, of a pile of munitions or what looks like missile technology or a snapshot of a smiling man in uniform brandishing RPG’s.

It makes it all too real, all too here and now.

In the palm of my hand.

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