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Over on the Lens blog, Sgt. Thomas James Brennan writes about the close bonds that form during battle, even between soldiers and the combat photographers documenting them. When Finbarr O’Reilly, a Reuters photographer, embedded with Sgt. Brennan’s squad of Marines in Afghanistan last October, he was a little guarded around the man with the camera. But the war didn’t give him time or space to hold onto those feelings. And conversations with Mr. O’Reilly, coupled with the closeness of battle, forged a bond between the men that continues to today. A bond was cemented with the commonalities the men shared, as Sgt. Brennan notes:
We mesh because we are so different, yet in so many ways alike, because we are not the status quo. We aren’t normal 9-to-5rs. Our 9 a.m. would start at 0600 hours and when our 5 p.m. would come, at 2100, we would tell stories of home or debate current events. Whether we shared the same ideals at that moment didn’t matter. The conversation was simply an escape from the harrowing reality we were in; a reality that few people share, a reality that brought Finbarr and me together.
Read the blog post here.
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