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Submitted: September 29, 2011
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Make:Canon
Model:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Shutter Speed:1/50 second
Aperture:F/1.8
Focal Length:85 mm
ISO Speed:250
Date Taken:Sep 28, 2011, 6:50:04 PM
Software:GIMP 2.6.11
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BROTHERS TO THE ENDby *MRBee30

Photography / People & Portraits / Expressive

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret.

We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.

Which of us were fortunate -- who can tell? For you there is silence and cold twilight drooping in awful desolation over those motionless lands. For us sunlight and the sound of women's voices, song and hope and laughter, despair, gaiety, love -- life.

Lost terrible silent comrades, we, who might have died, salute you.

كان هذا هو أطول يوم من أيام حياتنا.
أنا لا أريد أن استيقظ بعد الآن.
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(c) 2011 Property of, Will Merzlak.
Photograph taken and edited by Me.
5010x3336 Version available only by request.

"When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France”

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~ExquisiteDragon 2 days ago

My mind just blew! This is...this...I'm going to share this with two highly interested people...

~Natethaniel4 Mar 2, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is so beautiful and amazing and its very deep to me i love this <3

~UnexpectedHero Dec 10, 2011

This is absolutely beautiful and touching <3 God bless all the fallen soldiers <3

*kemobiggus Nov 14, 2011

Great piece! Very powerful!

*RiHouston Nov 13, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

This is such a beautiful and haunting piece. Not only an amazing concept, but fantastic follow through bringing forth that vision.

*MRBee30 Nov 13, 2011

Grazie my friend. Those we love remain with us for love itself lives on, and cherished memories never fade because a loved one's gone. Those we love can never be more than a thought apart, far as long as there is memory, they'll live on in the heart.

*RiHouston Nov 13, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

I agree completely with that sentiment. And you are most welcome.

~HELLGATEMARINE Oct 18, 2011 Student Digital Artist

great one

~malovence Oct 4, 2011

Reminds me of when I went to Arlington cemetery. Felt so much weight there from sheer reverence for the passed. Every time i saw a marker for some KIA in the 1950s i gave the marker a bow of respect. Men who ensured my existence.
To honor those who join the service, encourage the new, aid the enlisted, support the veterans, and respect the fallen.
Semper Fidelis.

~princess-emelina Oct 1, 2011

Very powerful. Very emotional. Gorgeous work. I love it.

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