"How much, I wondered, did that moment -- just 1/250th of a second when three lives intersected on a river bank in Iraq -- contribute to the burdens he'd brought home with him? If I'd never taken his picture, would he have ended up as he did? Would he still have been a casualty of war?"
(In March 2003, photographer Warren Zinn took this photo of Army medic Joseph Dwyer with wounded 4-year-old Iraqi Ali Sattar. This American hero, Dwyer struggled with PTSD and died June 28 of substance abuse. )
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two thoughts about a brief moment in life
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sometimes it amazes me to think that most of unforgettable experiences are memorized a shot of picture capturing a brief moment. One shot of visual image is remaining in our mind as a representative of whole story, and whenever we set our mind back to the experience, the captured moment will burst upon us. As time goes by, we will get forgotten the rest of story except for some visual images. otherwise, the whole story will be implied into the connotative visual image as well.
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sometimes it amazes me to realize that most of significant changes in our life are caused from a brief moment. someone called this moment 'AHA moment' and when it comes to the consciousness and awareness of one's everyday life, frequency varies. One day in my life, after passing this brief moment, i can see and think and feel and sense something more or something differently. It can bring me back personal growth, happiness, frustration, awareness, or even wise.
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