oath of service

clipped from www.newyorker.com Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. This summer, the photographer Platon took pictures of hundreds of men and women who volunteered to serve in the military and were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. He followed them on their journey through training and deployment, after demobilization and in hospitals, to compile a portrait of the dedication of the armed services today.