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Shit! Is it truth? LS member dead?
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He is!!! I got a message at 3 am!!! I couldn’t believe this really happened.. And couldn’t sleep all night!!!!
http://www.lightstalkers.org/dmitrychebotayev
I can only send my very sincere condolences to his family, his friends and his lovely girlfriend Natalia.. May his soul rest in peace! He was one of the most generous human beings I ever met in my entire life… And we only met 4 or 5 times.. So I can only imagine the situation his family, friends and girlfriend would be in now!!!
His friends are looking for any ways to get his stuff back and most importantly his pictures from Iraq.. Anyone has any idea?! It is very important for his friends to have those..
May his soul rest in peace..
Dalia
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So sad, so sorry, so senseless.
Here is the first post Bartek refers to.
MOSCOW (AFP) – A journalist killed along with six coalition soldiers by a blast in
Iraq on Sunday was a Russian news photographer, the Russian ambassador to Baghdad said Monday.
“His death was confirmed this morning…. It’s Dmitry Chebotayev,” Vladimir Chamov, Russia’s ambassador to Baghdad, told state-owned news channel Vesti.
Chebotayev, 29, was a Moscow-based freelance photographer who was working in Iraq for the Russian edition of Newsweek magazine. He had also worked for European Pressphoto Agency (EPA).
Chebotayev and six soldiers from the US coalition died as a result of injuries sustained when their vehicle was attacked by a roadside bomb in Diyala Province, a military statement said.
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i have no words…
my sincere condolences to his family and loved ones…
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O, FUCK, DIMA……
jesus………………………………………………………………….
marina and i were just speaking about your work last week……………..
oi, bozhe moi……
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:( i didn’t meet him… didn’t know personaly… i was just looking at his pics time to time, coz he was incredible talented photographer, only one year older than i am…
i want to add also my sincere condolences to his family, his friends and his girlfriend…
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Dmitry’s LS profile pcture, sure looks like a good man.
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Я был только чем, чего
ты касалась ладонью,
над чем в глухую, воронью
ночь склоняла чело.
Я был лишь тем, что ты
там, внизу, различала:
смутный облик сначала,
много позже – черты.
Это ты, горяча,
ошую, одесную
раковину ушную
мне творила, шепча.
Это ты, теребя
штору, в сырую полость
рта вложила мне голос,
окликавший тебя.
Я был попросту слеп.
Ты, возникая, прячась,
даровала мне зрячесть.
Так оставляют след.
Так творятся миры,
так, сотворив, их часто
оставляют вращаться,
расточая дары.
Так, бросаем то в жар,
то в холод, то в свет, то в темень,
в мирозданьи потерян,
кружится шар.
-joseph brodsky
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Ah Man. A photographer aged 29. I never knew him personally but it is really sad.
He obviously knew the risks and was prepared to take them. What other way is their in Iraq.
A sad day.
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So sad!
My deepest sympathy to his family and friends…the LS community is in grief.
B.
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This terrible terrible news and so sad…
I have never met him though I’ve contacted him to ask for his story “Chechnya – blind radio ham”http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000lj.LYbWKLsQ">http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000lj.LYbWKLsQ" contribution to our online monthly magazine. It’s supposed to be coming in July. I didn’t know then he was in Baqouba, Iraq on assignment, he was very prompt to the response.
I could see what he was like through email response and how sincere he was to the subject.
I would like to share with you his email here, sent May 2nd just few hours later I emailed him.
*Dear Yumi
Thanks for the offer to contribute my work for your online magazine. I think it’s great (the magazine and the offer) and I would like to give it a try. It’s a bit hard for me to do a lot of internet discussion now – I am in Baqouba, Iraq and I don’t have constant access to internet connection. Please e-mail me and tell me what kind of assistance is required from me and I’ll try to reply ASAP but it might take a few days.
I would really like to publish a story about these people because I feel they are great people whose story needs to be told and exposed. I really don’t understand how they managed to get through all that war hell. They are very open minded and honest people.
Thank you again
Dmitry*
And again I did replied and here is another reply just came 5 hours from the first reply.
*Hi
I’ll be back in Russia by the end of May so I think there will be no problem submitting you hi-res images. Thanks again.
Best regards,
Dmitry*
His wish that he’d like to publish a story for those people must be accomplished.
youme.
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What a sad news…
Rest in peace.
Nik
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Hey Youme..
Why don’t you try to contact his friends… One of his good friends, the one who sent me a text message with the terrible news yesterday night, would probably be able to help you in that.. If he cannot he would probably get you in touch with Dima’s girlfriend or whoever can help you.. I will PM you his email address..
He truly was a very nice person
Dalia
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Very sad, too many journalists are dying, he was much too young and too talented to be killed!
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His death is Bush’s fault. Too many journalists have died on his account. I’m sickened to my very core. This hits close. Most sincere condolences to those who held him dear.
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could be good if some magazine ( PDN, PHOTO or some other…) will make a article about him.. he deserve to be mentioned! his pictures deserved to be shown!
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It’s really sad, Дима мы тебя не забудем.
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i didn’t know him, i’m not even a photographer – but i’m always being so grateful to all of you going difficult places coming back with great pictures. how very sad when it ends like this, 29 is far too young to die
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Man he’ s dodging that dog almost on top of my networking list.
I just mailed with him a couple of times, so I didn’t know him personally, but it truly saddens me now.
Rest in peace.
Simon
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Dalia, thank you.
I’ll be getting in touch with him very soon.
youme.
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Dmitry Chebotayev.
A concerned photographer.
You’ll be missed by friends and family.
May your photographs all be perfect.
You’ll be remembered.
Rest in peace.
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Here is LINK to his recent work in Iraq
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To his family and friends my most sincere condolences
and to our community too, because it’s one more brother a young brother that falls, one more of us that is’n coming back from work.
peace to him.
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My deepest condolences to his family and friends. Too young to die. What a waste of talent. So,so sad. May he rest in peace..
jaime
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I cant believe, this is so sad
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How can he log in? Just realized he is now top of my network list.
I still can’t accept what have happened..
youme.
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I cant believe it.Rest in peace Dima.
He was such a cool guy.What a waste.
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My deep condolences to his family, friends and those who knew him. Very sad day. RIP
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As Hassan Titi Reuters cameraman in the West Bank, the man who brought Mazen Dana’s body back from Iraq a few months later stood next to Nazeh Darwazeh when he was shot through the head, said when I asked him why he wasn’t wearing his flak jacket, “I know it can’t protect me.” I asked him why he risks his life to get the footage, he said, “I don’t know why I do it, all I know is I can’t live without my camera.”
All my heartfelt condolences to friends, family and strangers who have been touched by your dedication and spirit dear Dmitry.
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I knew Dima personally during my photoediting at Rusky Newsweek and we worked together on various assignments. He was one of the few I trusted for 200%, and he never failed. He had such a gorgeous smile I adored, always in a good mood, his sence of humour was brilliant. We laughed a lot on his assgnment funny stories. I always listened to his advice carefully as he was older than me, but still forever young at heart. Never ever even a scent of arrogance to anyone, true professional and friend.
Rest in peace, dear brother. We will never forget.
Alexander Pryazhnikov
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Damn it. I’ve never met him in person but we exchanged a few emails. He was a great photographer. Rest in peace.
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very sad to hear that, his family and friends are in my thoughts and prayers.
R.I.P Dmitry
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Птица известна ее полетом…..
we begin and end in dream but through the course of our waking we are not dream but flesh and bone and blood, weighted down by life’s gravity and time’s urgency, born into and back by the way in which we carry our lives and our actions. Though we cannot, not ever, know this life and this world, it, sometimes majestically and sometimes horribly, knows us all too well. How to measure this unfathomable inequality?: to, without certainty and assuredness, without footing and buckles, to extract from the life what it has given up and to share that experience with others. To sing the dark with rhyming and light. Dima’s life and work are a testament to this. His brave and unyielding work in Urkraine and in Chetnya are ballasts by which we can measure our own understanding of place and people’s whose lives have been rendered harshly. My wife, just last week, spoke of the honesty and “beauty” (in the humanistic sense) of his work and that it was clear that his compass pointed toward the undestanding, the noble witnessing of that life and for those who had lived through those difficult times and places. Dima’s work and his character as a person are rhymes by which, all of us can take inside ourselves, swallow them inside our cold and wearied bodies and allow them to sing inside the place of darkness into which we all so often feel trapped.
That he shall remain among his friends and family, not in the relm of dreams but in the life surrounding. Like all sources of light, Dima and his work shall not pass beneath this temporary cloak of darkness and will be folded back and will emerge corona-spark and unyielding.
The deepest and most personal condolences for Dima’s family, friends and loved ones from our family…..
мы – с Вами…….
bob and marina…
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Rest in Peace Brother!
CG
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Oh man, this is really sad..
Good bye Dmitry, i’am sending you everything positive as a thought, that i can think right now.
Good bye.
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Heartbreaking news… rest in peace Dmitry.
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I didn’t meet him but it is really nice to be known by most of people and more of it known as a good man. Good people don’t stay on earth much. Rest in peace Dmitry…
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Terrible news. At this point I think Newsweek and other magazines need to seriously reconsider putting journalists in the line of fire…..and weight that against the value of the reporting, which at this point I would offer is very little.
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F……!, another talent cut out, My deepest condolences to families and friends. Rest in Peace, F……..!
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So incredibly sad….
My deepest condolences to his family and friends. Hope you can find strenght amongst eachother to try to deal with this terrible loss.
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It is sad, very sad. But its also a roll of the dice we all take over there. I also think reportage out of there even at this late date is still important.
Cheers,
Bill.
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How awful…I had a premonition when I posted in the LS Alerts last night the Reuters story of a (then) unnamed embedded European journalist being killed with US troops.
It’s a shame when anyone dies in this crazy fucking civil war brought on in major part by insane decisions by my government, and it is especially enraging that it was someone so young and plainly talented. My heart goes out to his family and friends.
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Rest in peace, dear brother.
Iraq: How much more do we need to know about this story? How many more must die? What madness, this thing: the news and history machine.
Jenny
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I second that, Neal.
Just for disclosure… Dmitry contacted me in January about embedding in Iraq. Seems I have lots of experience doing that and I have no problem helping someone. So I passed on the contacts I had at the CPIC and some other advice. What to wear and not wear (100-percent clothing and no synthetics), learning the military’s rank structure (sergeant vs. lieutenant), learn some combat first aid (controlling bleeding) etc etc. He thanked me for the advice and offered to help me if I wanted to work in Russia.
I know this will probably open me up to someone calling me responsible for his very tragic death. He had a lot of talent and obviously loved what he did. But he went over fully aware of what could happen.
Tonight I’m toasting him with a couple of vodka shots. Its the least I can do. If anyone here knows his family, please pass along my condolences.
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There’s a lot we need to know about this story. Its the biggest story of my generation. What other reason is there to stay?
Kit Roane over at Warshooter wants to put up a tribute of Dmitry and his work. Can anyone point out his people or where to find his work?
Cheers,
Bill.
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Bill, I would say that George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, wimpo US press organs that did not ask hard enough questions in 2002-2003, and about a hundred other people and institutions I could name had infinitely more to do with his death than your generous act to help a fellow journalist to pursue the major conflict story of our time.
You were not the cause, be assured.
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I never personally met him but I found his work very inspiring. It’s a tragic loss of a great talent. It’s a sad state to have to add another name to the list of journalists killed in Iraq and around the world.
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Very sad to hear about this. My condolences to his friends and family. R.I.P. Dmitry
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Bill
This is exactly what my friend from Russia asked me to do in his text message at 4.30 am, while I was trying very hard to get some sleep after I heard the tragic news!!! He asked me to have some vodka shots with Dmitry, saying he would surely be happy if I do that!! I will do that soon!! Such a big loss… A person so full of life!!!
I will PM you his friend’s email address, he will help you with what you need to know about Dima and his work..
Cheers..
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Bill:
if Kit’s puts up a tribute for Dima, please include my message above (with brodsky poem) on Warshooter……if you look at his page you can find his work….also, im trying to find his personal page at www.photosight.ru (the russian photography online community where dima use to participate (when it was smaller))…
anything more i can do, please let me know…
bob
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Rest in Peace, Brother.
Amen.
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This is very sad, indeed. Rest in peace.
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It is sad to see the young are being killed in this war as in the wars past. In this case, embedding made him a victim along with US soldiers.
We need to abolish all wars, otherwise we are killing the future every day.
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dima,
i never knew you but you had something special, you had a passion which you were willing to die for, unbelievably few people have that.
i hope that you will have as much fun somewhere out there as you had here.
cheers,
peter
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I would like please to ask from the creator of this thread, to change a bit, if it’s possible, the title of it.
With no offence, i believe is kind of unappropriate.
J.J.
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Here we are again, Bob….yesterday talking about Iraq and now…being sad and having a lot to think.
This is fucking sad…..and so f… young!!
One vodka bottle on his memory!!
At least he loved his work, like most of us. Isn’t that a privilege?
Respect.
Al.
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Unbelievable…
Rest in Peace…Dmitry
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As tragic as Dmitry’s death was… lets not forget the six individuals who died with him and the other two who were undoubtedly catastropically maimed in the explosion.
Sure, they were soldiers. However they were also part of the story so many of us risked to cover.
Cheers,
Bill.
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I didn’t know Dmitry personally but I had a brief e-mail correspondance with him a year ago. He sounded like a helpful, commited and honest man. He was a great and talented photographer.
My deepest condolences to his family and friends.
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most sincere apologies and condolences to friends and family.
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..to his family and friends,
He was brave, and that is something to admire, I didn´t knew him, but his spirit live on, and will inspire others…
Sorry for your loss,
Mikael
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last time I’ve heared from him was about a month ago. my heart goes goes to his friends and family. (as bill said, it’s a tragic reminder of realities on the ground – a roll of the dice people take over there)
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Very sad, One of friend youme just send me his link few days ago.I am felling very sad.My deepest condolences to his family and friends.
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Really sorry to hear that.
<<places a tri-x film beside him….
rest in peace my photographer friend.
S
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I believe I briefly met Dmitry in the Cpic as I returned from Diyala myself. So very sad, and very fucked up. That is war, or at least an ever present aspect of war. To those who doubt the necessity of reporting from Iraq, I urge you to reconsider. In the case of Diyala, where I spent two weeks prior to Dmitry’s arrival, the situation is grave, and many US commanders are unwilling to admit this. Yet the reporting of journalists who do make it out there (and there are not many) seem to paint a different story much to the dismay of the military. We do need more reporting from Iraq, do not think otherwise. Diyala (and Baghdad) are the worst places in the country, and present very specific challenges to all envolved. Also, Bill Putman reminds us to not forget about the soldiers who died along with our colleague. God damn right. They are dying everyday in that prvince, and thanked me everyday for having the determination to report on what is arguably one of the most dangerous pieces of real estate on the planet right now. Of course there are also many deaths suffered by Iraqis – some in combat with the Americans, but maybe more importantly in conflict with themselves,as a program of social cleansing is under way in the region, carried out by both Sunni and Shia. It is yet more undianable evidence that the civil war is on. I am very sorry for Dmitry’s death. This type of work boils down to a numbers game, and sometimes your number is up. The Baquba area, especially, is a mine field. I was hit by two IED’s within four days, I was luckier than our fllen friend. Anyone trying to work in Iraq, partiucularly in places like Diyala or Baghdad. needs to think long and hard about working there and the risks envolved, but the effort is never in vain. Never.
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This is from his agency, World Picture Network:
Nothing personal. Photographer Dmitry Chebotayev died this weekend in Iraq. Killed by a roadside bomb while riding with US soldiers. I did not know him very well, just well enough to take it a little bit personally.
I remember an eager person, always willing to help, always trying to make things work, very cheerful. The last time I spoke with him, it was around ten days ago. We had a conversation that was unfortunately too brief, cut off by bad reception after a few minutes. I sent him an email and skype message, but never had time to hear back from him.
Now he is gone. Roadside bomb. Just like that, nothing personal.
My thoughts go to members of the press, fellow journalists and photojournalists who risk their lives, and sanity, everyday, somewhere. I cannot question the desire to cover events, it is innate, comes with the territory. I cannot stop our contributors to go to nasty places either. So what, then? Maybe say “be careful”, but even so, that seems so weak. Still, be careful.
My thoughts also go to the unwilling victims of conflicts, all those who had the bad luck to be born at the wrong place at the wrong time. War is an absurd business, so 20th century.
But, most importantly, my thoughts are with the parents and sister Dmitry left behind. How unbelievably painful it must be for a mother to be still alive, with her child dead. It is not meant to happen that way, not like that.
Nothing personal. This is why we must always cherish life and never forget the extra hug to loved ones.
This week WpN starts an exhibition to honor seven prized photographers. On Wednesday there is a party at the gallery, attended by some of these photographers. On that occasion, we all will have a special thought for Dmitry.
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just heard that dmitry died…couldn´t believe it in the first moment. i didn´t know him personally, but he gave me many advice about my plans to go to transdniestr. a great loss for us all, very nice and competent guy. my deepest condolences to his family + friends.
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Thanks, Eros. I couldn’t have said it better. This war is worth the risk. Be safe over there, man.
Cheers,
Bill.
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Bill: My thoughts also go to the families of every single journalist and photographer who has died. And to every single one of them now risking their lives. And to every single one of the 1 in 8 families in Iraq who are estimated to have suffered a loss of life. And to every single mother of every single soldier who has died.
And my hope is that every single story published will serve a single goal: to bring an end to this war, not serve to prolong it.
Nice comment fromhttp://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2268067.ece
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Bill P, Eros, Bill J et al. With all due respect I think the politics of Iraq should be kept out of this.
This post is kind off a condolences list for Dmitry. I think most people have a basic understanding of the diabolical situation in Iraq and the very need for photographers and journalists to continue covering the depressing situation.
I did not know Dimitry and what his view was on the politics in Iraq.
I do think this post should be kept as a memory for Dimitry the person and photographer.
I think if the Lightstalkers community is going to have a debate about the politics in Iraq we should do it in another post.
This is in no way intended to offend anyone.
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I was going to post something in response here, Mark. Instead, I’ve emailed you.
Peace.
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Yeah I got it. I have sent you a PM response.
Kind Regards
Mark
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I am really sorry to hear this….
Dmitri rest in peace
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I’ve just read of this brave Photo-Journalist who’s now Resting in Peace. My heart goes out to his Photography, family and friends!
Regards
Faye
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The names and ages of the men who died with Dima are released. Here are they are:
Staff Sgt. Vincenzo Romeo, 23, of Lodi, N.J.
Sgt. Jason R. Harkins, 25, of Clarkesville, Ga.
Sgt. Joel W. Lewis, 28, of Sandia Park, N.M.
Cpl. Matthew L. Alexander, 21, of Gretna, Neb.
Cpl. Anthony M. Bradshaw, 21, of San Antonio, Texas.
Cpl. Michael A. Pursel, 19, of Clinton, Utah.
Bill.
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He had sent me some pics for the FOP show a few weeks ago…..one was badly toned, I never do this, but I toned the pic for him. That makes me feel good. The projection is going to be dedicated to Ajmal and Dimitri….rest in peace, brother.
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Bill: thank you for adding the names of the young, christ so young, men who died along with dima…….
bob
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Andy:
I am so happy that the LS FOB projection is going to be dedicated to Ajmal and Dima…I am sure his parents and girlfriend and friends are thankful and supportive and I am particularly happy that Dima’s work will be included as well.
thanks so much.
bob
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So sad, May his soul rest in peace..
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I’ve just login and see the news, so sad. So sad that I havent met him before. Rest in peace friend.
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they were all so young. my condolences to the family and friends of those that died..
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It’s another tragedy – and he looked like a great guy. My deepest condolences to all his friends and family.
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I’m 23, and sigh, most were younger than even me! It hurts. it hurts.
May their souls rest in peace. May we all learn to live in peace. Amen.
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It’s so sad to loose a member, may his good work be remembered. RIP
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Aga Łuczakowska
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Katowice
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En route to
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