
The original photograph shows a sea of soldiers sitting behind the president as he stands at a podium just left of the center of the frame. Bush was speaking at Fort Drum in New York on July 19, 2002. (AP Graphic)
"To remember is, more and more, not to recall a story but to be able to call up a picture. (...) Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us." Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others. (2002)
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