Soldiers Coffin

I believe choosing a picture such as this instead of soldiers coming home victorious, gives the idea that the Iraq war is a dead cause. It resulted in many unnecessary deaths of soldiers and civilians. It is also very interesting the Heisler chose to get a picture of the close up instead of the whole plane. I believe that maybe he wanted to show the importance of the soldiers and full give the meaning of the picture to the soldiers and the onlooking passenger. If he had chosen to take the picture of the whole plane i believe that might deter the complete attention of the audience from the soldiers into the plane. It is also very interesting to see the faces of the onlookers, who show a lot of sadness even though they seem to be very diverse. It seems like most of the are immigrants, rather than the white Americans. This i think also adds the meaning, that we are one nation no matter what ethnicity you are, we are all Americans. In the little compartment you can see the three soldiers trying their best to make the flag look good on the coffin. Also the framing of the compartment makes it look like the coffin is going into another world, as in it's going into the after life. It seems like that because you can not see anyone outside of the plane waiting to receive the coffin. 

If i were to use this picture i an argumentative essay, the essay would mostly concentrate on an anti-war theme. About the loss of not only young American life's but also the life's of the civilians in the countries where the war takes place. Also i could use the facial expression of the onlooking passenger to make the argument that the people are against the war. Another argument that can be made is that no matter what your skin color we are still all Americans under one flag. Other pictures i could use for theses argument would include pictures of soldiers with different backgrounds, more pictures of death and violence. 

-"Another young soldier being brought home in a coffin using a civilian flight. The passengers of the flight looking down with sadness and grief on their faces." I am trying to make the argument that this is not the only soldier that has returned dead, and also that many people from different backgrounds show the same feelings. I am using pathos in this caption since it applies to peoples emotions. I think death, brings out feelings very easily, and also brings out the same feelings in many different people.