Page 55 Creative Practice

There is a very unique photograph found on page 55. Photographer Todd Heisler took this photo. The picture is of a soldier’s coffin returning home on a civilian flight into Reno, Nevada, being draped with an American flag prior to being unloaded from the plane. There are several people on this flight that are watching this unfold. They are looking at this with blank faces. I think the photographer is trying to show that the expression on these people’s faces is how American’s view the war in Iraq. The people look interested in what’s going on but are not shocked about what they see. They are so used to hearing everyday that a soldier has died that it doesn’t even phase them when they see the coffin of the dead soldier in person. I would say that American’s don’t realize how serious and terrible it is when a soldier dies in the Iraq War.