Throughout Alpha Company digital cameras appear and soon the men are posing for one another nearby our embedded reporters take all this in they cluster together like new kids in second grade watching the scene as awkward outsiders. These photos are crucially important a form of insurance against our own mortality a few months back we lost a man and realized to our unending dismay that no one had a single photo of him to display at his memorial service it was disgraceful surely this is in the back of everyone's mind now this time we will have a record of every soul who goes through the breach Michael Ware breaks ranks from the cluster of journalists with Yuri in tow they come over to third platoon and offer to take our picture the