Claim: A photograph shows the wedding of a U.S. Marine disfigured by combat wounds.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: American mutilation of Japanese war dead
text: magazine published a photograph taken by Ralph Morse during the Guadalcanal campaign showing a severed Japanese head that U.S. Marines had propped up below the gun turret of a tank. "Life" received letters of protest from people "in disbelief that American soldiers were capable of such brutality toward the enemy." The editors responded that "war is unpleasant, cruel, and inhuman. And it is more dangerous to forget this than to be shocked by reminders." However, the image of the severed head generated less than half the amount of protest letters that an image of a mistreated cat in the very

title: Bradley Kasal
text: photographer Lucian Read — blood-soaked and still holding his M9 pistol and KA-Bar fighting knife — being helped from the building by fellow Marines, has become one of the iconic pictures of the war. Due to the injuries, Kasal lost four inches of bone in his right leg. He has undergone 21 surgeries to date in order to repair his injuries and save his leg. Kasal continues his recovery from his wounds and still walks with a limp. Kasal served as the Sergeant Major of Recruiting Station Des Moines, Iowa from May 2006 until January 2010. He then returned to

title: Sumiteru Taniguchi
text: and white photograph and this is included in his book, "Japan 1945: A U.S. Marine's Photographs from Ground Zero". By May 1947, Taniguchi could finally sit up, and on 20 March 1949, he was discharged from the Omura hospital. His wounds were not treated properly until 1960, however, and continued to cause him great physical discomfort until his death. The improper burn healing and to some degree the delayed stochastic effects of radiation exposure during and after the bombings manifested in the growth of numerous burn keloid tumors. From 2007 until his death, Taniguchi had undergone ten surgeries to remove

title: Ray Platnick
text: Eniwetok to warn Marines if they were occupied. He photographed young marines, exhausted after two days and two nights of fighting, downing mugs of coffee. A 19 February 1944 portrait attributed to him and made during the Battle, of United States Marine Corps Private Theodore James Miller (later killed there on March 24, 1944) boarding the Coast Guard-manned attack transport USS "Arthur Middleton" presents a famous example of the traumatised expression of combat fatigue. In 1955 Edward Steichen selected Platnick's picture of a slain soldier on Eniwetok for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man seen

title: Michael Stokes (photographer)
text: find. I noticed that most of them emphasized the lost limb, and that the mood was often sorrowful. That was not the vibe I was getting from him, so I decided to simply photograph him as if he were not an amputee, photograph him exactly the same way I would any of my fitness models." In 2014, Stokes’ collection of vintage photographs of nude WWII soldiers was published by Taschen as "My Buddy". His third book, "Always Loyal" (2015), is devoted exclusively to wounded United States veterans, while "Exhibition" (2015), is a continuation of his celebration of the male figure.

title: United States Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion
text: Sergeant Jim Burns, one of the recon photographers, and Ensign Frank Jirka, a UDT liaison officer, were both hit by shrapnel; Burns in his arm, torso and eye; Jirka in his legs. Most of the wounded were brought onto the USS "Tennessee" for treating severe casualties and the mildly wounded. Sgt. Burns turned in his Contax camera, along with vital and pertinent intelligence, to Captain Reynolds for use in briefing the commanders. Afterwards, he was medically evacuated to Hawaii and returned to the continental United States, receiving a Bronze Star for his actions. Ensign Jirka, on the other hand, lost

title: Jesse Marlow
text: and is played with a "commitment and passion not seen anywhere else around the country". Marlow's second book, "Wounded" (2005), shows people going about their routines, yet with visible injury. He was inspired after breaking his arm and unable to operate a camera, he became tuned to noticing others in a similar position and they were subsequently all he photographed for the next two years. He has said that his "aim with the project was to show that despite people suffering obvious superficial injuries, human beings dust themselves off and get on with life." These first two books were made

title: Zoriah Miller
text: of his embedding by taking pictures of dead and injured soldiers and thereby "[providing the] enemy with an after-action report on the effectiveness of their attack and on the response procedures of U.S. and Iraqi forces". Photographs that he took in Iraq of dead US Marines after a suicide bomber in Al-Karmah that he posted on his website were widely discussed and brought to light the issue of wartime censorship. Although working as a photographer from a young age , Miller's career did not take off until late 2005 when a photograph of his showing one result of the 2004

title: Bodily mutilation in film
text: movies have often romanticized battle and violence for glory; but after the Vietnam War, many movies worked to portray war in its true form, all the violence, brutality, and even the psychological distress included. This is shown in several films including "The Deer Hunter" (1978) and "Casualties of War" (1989). A great example is the classic film "Saving Private Ryan" (1998). In the beginning of this movie there is a 15-minute scene showing the landing of American troops at Omaha beach. In this scene there are untold amounts of blood and gore as German machine guns literally rip the U.S.

title: Battle of Suoi Chau Pha
text: Losing an eye and suffering heavy blood loss from multiple shrapnel wounds after a Viet Cong rocket exploded within a metre of him, he was evacuated to 8 Field Ambulance in Vung Tau with no pulse. His left leg later amputated, his wounds were so bad he had to be given a general anaesthetic each time his bandages were changed. Making a miraculous recovery however, he was personally recommended for the US Medal of Honor by Westmoreland for his resolute spirit, although this was later reduced to a lesser Australian award. Many casualties were beyond help however, and the battalion

title: Nguyễn Ngọc Loan
text: throats of a South Vietnamese officer, his wife, their six children and the officer’s 80-year-old mother. The photograph and footage were broadcast worldwide, galvanizing the anti-war movement. Eddie Adams' photo won Adams the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. The image became an anti-war icon. A few months after the execution picture was taken, Loan was seriously wounded near Saigon by machine gun fire that led to the amputation of his leg. Again his picture hit the world press, this time as Australian war correspondent Pat Burgess carried him back to his lines. He was evacuated to Australia and

title: James Blake Miller
text: The photograph was nominated by "Slate" in 2011 for a list of "New Classics", products of the culture since 2000 that will withstand the test of time. After his tour, Miller returned to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. He was married in June 2005 and divorce papers were filed a year later. He was deployed aboard the USS "Iwo Jima", to assist recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina; during that period he blacked out during a PTSD episode. In November 2005, Miller was medically discharged from the Marine Corps. In 2008, Miller was living in his hometown and

title: Gassed (painting)
text: by two medical orderlies. The line of tall, blond soldiers forms a naturalist allegorical frieze, with connotations of a religious procession. Many other dead or wounded soldiers lie around the central group, and a similar train of eight wounded, with two orderlies, advances in the background. Biplanes dogfight in the evening sky above, as a watery setting sun creates a pinkish yellow haze and burnishes the subjects with a golden light. In the background, the moon also rises, and uninjured men play association football in blue and red shirts, seemingly unconcerned at the suffering all around them. In May 1918,

title: American mutilation of Japanese war dead
text: misery.” All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. U.S. Marine veteran Donald Fall attributed the mutilation of enemy corpses to hatred and desire for vengeance: On the second day of Guadalcanal we captured a big Jap bivouac with all kinds of beer and supplies ... But they also found a lot of pictures of Marines that had been cut up and mutilated on Wake Island. The next thing you know there are

title: The Wounded Table
text: wounds in the table, the man's feet, and the skeleton. It pools near the hem of the Tehuana dress and splatters onto the skirt. Blood is never far removed from the heart, and in this particular work the skeleton is touched by the bloodheart linking the skeletal death figure with the heart-life." The Wounded Table The Wounded Table ("La mesa herida" in Spanish) is an oil painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Although lost in 1955, three photos of this painting were taken between 1940 and 1944. The painting was first displayed in January 1940 at the International Surrealism Exhibit

title: Mark de Rond
text: them, how the team functioned under all that pressure. I was there just to observe and record what was going on, but, of course, I could not help being affected myself. It is very difficult seeing a child missing a leg, or a teenage soldier who is a double amputee." During his deployment, de Rond was given permission to film and photograph the surgeons at work as they dealt with IED bomb casualties from British and American forces and also local adult and children casualties caused by IEDs and in firefights in the areas surrounding the camp. In September 2013,

title: William R. Charette
text: bag and knocked him unconscious. When he awoke, he found his face bleeding from shrapnel wounds and he couldn't see. He recovered enough to continue to aid Marines in the battle using torn parts of his uniform in order to dress battle wounds. In another instance, he removed his battle vest and placed it on another wounded Marine whose vest was destroyed from another explosion. In yet another instance, he attended to five Marines who were wounded in a trench from another explosion, and then stood up in the trench exposing himself to incoming rounds in order to carry the

title: Pride of the Marines
text: He hopes that an operation will restore his sight, but the medical procedure isn't successful. He doesn't want Ruth to know that he is almost completely blind, so he attempts to break up with her. Schmid is aided in his recovery by Diamond, hospital rehabilitation officer Virginia Pfeiffer (Rosemary DeCamp), and the other wounded veterans. He is to be awarded the Navy Cross but is dismayed that the ceremony will take place in his home town. He initially feels anger at being dependent upon family and friends as he doesn't want to be a burden to anyone. In spite of

title: Tom Savini
text: and continued on stage long after his tour of duty in Vietnam. Savini served as a combat photographer during the Vietnam War. In a 2002 interview, he told the "Pittsburgh Post" "When I was in Vietnam I was a combat photographer. My job was to shoot images of damage to machines and to people. Through my lens, I saw some hideous [stuff]. To cope with it, I guess I tried to think of it as special effects. Now, as an artist, I just think of creating the effect within the limitations we have to deal with." He continued to practice

title: War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007
text: Army Medical Department sought to censor the book and to keep it out of civilian hands, largely due to the graphic nature of some of its photographic content, specifically gruesome photos of war wounds which might be used for political purposes. The editors are Dr. Shawn Christian Nessen; Dr. Dave Edmond Lounsbury, Developmental Editor; and Dr. Stephen P. Hetz; all serving or former medical officers. Graphic design was by Christine Gamboa-Onrubia. Many of the nonclinical photographs in the book were taken by David Leeson of the "Dallas Morning News". By August 2008, it had reached the number 67 position among