http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/63251/ this is the link to a photo album of Andrew Lichtensteins more...other photos in this essay.
The author of this picture is Andrew Lichtenstein, a New York-based documentary photographer and former Open Society Institute Justice Fellow. He writes:
The picture is from the funeral of Bunny Long, a Cambodian American marine who was killed in Anbar province on March 10, 2006, and buried outside of Modesto, California on March 22nd, 2006.
The actual carrying of the casket in a military funeral is a very formal ritual. So much so, that many honor guards who have been assigned the task choose to practice at the graveside before the funeral party has arrived. But the "dry run" is not formal at all-that is, it is not a built in part of the military funeral ceremony, just a rehearsal.
I was able to make the photograph because I had been to plenty of funeral before this one, and saw on several occasions military honor guards practicing their steps less
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