More 3rd ID

Today’s Savannah Morning News notes the deaths of three more 3rd ID soldiers from nearby Fort Stewart in Iraq: David A. Kirkpatrick, age 20; Nicholas E. Riehl, 21; and Eddie D. Tamez, 21. You may recall that the 3rd ID is the Army division now in the process of making its third deployment to Iraq.

I should probably say that one of the reasons we’ve gotten so aware of the 3rd ID — and that I sometimes come across like I know all about it etc. etc., when I really don’t — is that E has got an interesting project going:

She’s using the wet-plate collodion process that she has learned, and taking portraits of 3rd ID soldiers. I think the results so far are pretty impressive, but I suppose I’m a bit biased. Anyway, E makes the pictures in our back yard, so we have soldiers coming to the house all the time now. By mid-June, E will know a couple dozen people in Iraq…