What Is Remembered Most

I can no longer remember who took this photo, or even the exact location of the event, and I've never seen a single reference to it other than it's original publication several years ago.
 
It epitomizes the U.S.'s invasion of Iraq, and so much else the U.S. and, yes, many other countries have done. It appears for all the world as if it has putatively been forgotten, put behind us while we move on, forward, not looking to the past.

But now, as the hour of death draws close, I think less of the effects of the crime on those who did it and in whose name it was approved or allowed. What I see more is the love that the surrounding men have for the father and his son.

Val