Washington, DC, Celeste Zappala and members of “Military Families Speak Out” quietly sat on one side of the square.

Washington, DC, Celeste Zappala and members of “Military Families Speak Out” quietly sat on one side of the square.

Photograph

Lucian Perkins

Maker
American, b. 1953

Washington, DC, Celeste Zappala and members of “Military Families Speak Out” quietly sat on one side of the square.

Her son, who was the first Pennsylvanian guardsman to be killed since World War II, died in 2004 as his unit searched for non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: “We decided when we buried him that we would keep speaking out. That’s what I’m doing here.”


October 6, 2011
Inkjet print, printed 2012
Overall: 18.5 x 27.1 cm (7 5/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Image: 16.9 x 25.3 cm (6 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2012
2012.0800.0006
Inscriptions recto (marker): 2

[no inscription verso]

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