Some of the most moving photos in the War/Photography exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum were taken by Todd Heisler, who is an amazing photographer at the New York Times. In 2005, when he was still at the Rocky Mountain News, he spent a year documenting Marines who handle family notifications and funerals for soldiers who were killed in the Iraq war.
In an exhibition that is full of hundreds of incredibly powerful photos, my heart aches every single time I look at these images–and his entire photo essay is definitely worth a look if you haven’t seen them before (via Pulitzer.org)