Creativist Pursuits
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Featured Photography
Images are powerful. The subtle details give depth, telling a whole story in one captured moment.
The selected works below are photographs that are stories unto themselves.
"War! Huh! good God y'all! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Say it again!"
Battles are a different matter entirely, though.
Competitive spirit is stirred by a game of volleyball, easily the most popular sport played by us during our month-long training.
I spent the next few hours after the sandstorm hacking the moondust that is Iraqi sand up from my lungs and sneezing it out.
These are called "pocket flags" and made by the good people of Pocket Flags Project. Everyone in my fire team sports these minuscule reminder of home.
Why do we expect trained killers, like myself, to enforce peace with the barrel of a gun pointed at those we claim to be fighting for? We insist in "staying the course." But how much longer?