Grief

Last March a photographer's walk through Arlington National Cemetery's Section 60, the burial ground for soldiers who fought in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, culminated in the discovery that many of the graves had been desecrated. The mementos that loved ones had put on the graves were gone. It was discovered that the cemetery was enforcing a new policy. Nonetheless, it made for a shocking photo essay that captured not only the still real grief of family members who have lost people to war, but how you could rid anything of its humanity, even a graveyard.