Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 72

images: The father, third from left, and other family members of Hadi Hasan, cry over his body at a morgue in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 11, 2005. Hasan, an employee of the Ministry of Electricity, was shot and killed Sunday in Baghdad’s Dora district. A note was found next to Hasan’s body claiming responsibility by the ‘Islamic Army’. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.

approximately 60kb total in 4 images, and poem, below the fold

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A Dirge
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rough Wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;
Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main, _
Wail, for the world’s wrong!

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This diary series is dedicated to all who suffer because of war

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Author: RubDMC

I'm a PROUD Massachusetts Liberal who lives just a short stroll from the site of the first armed resistance to another insane tyrant named George in 1775.