Aroma da morte…

David Robert Swanson, USA, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Private Eric Ayon of Echo Company of the Second Battalion, Fourth Regiment of the US Marines stares through the bullet-riddled windshield of a Humvee ambushed at Ar Ramadi in Iraq on April 6. Eight out of the nine marines on board were killed, and Ayon himself died in an ambush at the same intersection three days later. During its tour of Iraq, Echo Company suffered the worst casualties of any US company since Vietnam.