“Almost every soldier in Iraq has been involved in some sort of incident like that or another, I would say. Their attitude about it was grim, but it wasn’t the end of their world. It was, ‘Well, kind of wished they’d stopped. We fired warning shots. Damn, I don’t know why the hell they didn’t stop. What’re you doing later, you want to play Nintendo? Okay.’ Just a day’s work for them. That stuff happens in Iraq a lot.” - Chris Hondros commenting on this photo he took of Samar Hassan, 5, who screams after her parents were killed by U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division in a shooting January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. The troops fired on the Hassan family car when it unwittingly approached them during a dusk patrol in the tense northern Iraqi town. Parents Hussein and Camila Hassan were killed instantly, and a son Racan, 11, was seriously wounded in the abdomen.
Chris Hondros an Oscar-nominated war-film director and a second prize-winning photojournalist died covering the battle between rebels and Libyan government forces in the western city of Misrata on Wednesday. RIP.