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January 31, 2006

Blogger's Photograph Gets 'Drafted'

Topics: Iraq

If you remember this picture you probably know about Michael Yon.

A former Green Beret, he has placed himself at the forefront of the media revolution. He is literally a one-man media outlet, a blogger who pays his own way (through other incomes and donations) to go to Iraq and write back dispatches from the front lines. He works for no one, and no one works for him. There is absolutely no filtering, no editing, no censoring of his raw observations.

He's also an amazing photographer, as well as a superb obsever and writer. His picture of an American soldier cradling an Iraqi girl fatally wounded in a terrorist attack has almost become the image of the fighting in Iraq, on its way to becoming the equivalent of the firefighters hoisting the flag on 9/11, or the naked Vietnamese girl running away from the napalm, or the Marines raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi.

Apparently, the Army liked Yon's photo so much - it was drafted!

Posted by Richard at January 31, 2006 3:39 PM

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