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Smoke billows from the Iraqi planning ministry in Baghdad after it was hit with a missile during the start of the Iraq War on March 20, 2003. (Olivier Coret / Corbis) Back to slideshow navigation -
Victim of crossfire
A U.S. Marine doctor holds an Iraqi girl in central Iraq on March 29, 2003. A crossfire on the front lines ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians toward Marine positions. (Damir Sagolj / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation -
Letters from home
U.S. Army Spc. Lucas Edwards smells the perfume on mail sent from his wife, Stephanie, in the desert near Karbala in central Iraq on March 29, 2003. (John Moore / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Rescue of Jessica Lynch
An image from video shown during a news conference on April 2, 2003, at the Central Command Center in Doha, Qatar, shows the rescue of U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch on April 1 in Iraq. (U.S. Central Command / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Moving into Baghdad
U.S. Marines from the 3rd Battalion urge infantrymen to rush across the damaged Baghdad Highway Bridge on April 7, 2003. They were moving forward under fire in the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad. (Kuni Takahashi / Boston Herald via AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
In Saddam's palace
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, on April 7, 2003, after searching one of Saddam Hussein's palaces damaged by bombs in Baghdad. (John Moore / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Symbolic fall
A statue of Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad on April 9, 2003. Iraqis earlier took a sledgehammer to the marble plinth under the statue. Youths had placed a noose around the statue's neck and attached the rope to a U.S. armored vehicle to pull it down. (Goran Tomasevic / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation -
Tragic homecoming
Family members mourn the death of three male relatives in Baghdad on April 10, 2003. A father, his teenage son and another male relative were shot to death by U.S. Marines the night before after the car they were driving allegedly did not stop while passing a building occupied by the Marines. The victims' relatives were waiting for their return and did not know about the incident until relatives towed the car, containing the three bodies, to the family's home. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Mourning a fallen comrade
Staff Sgt. Lonnie Roberts cries at a memorial service April 16, 2003, in Baghdad for Pvt. Gregory R. Huxley Jr., 19, of Forest Port, N.Y., who was killed April 6 when the armored personnel carrier he was riding in was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Huxley had finished basic training just five months earlier. Roberts was the squad leader and also was riding in the carrier. (David Leeson / Dallas Morning News via Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation -
Mission accomplished
President George W. Bush addresses the nation aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it sails for San Diego, Calif., on May 1, 2003. Bush declared major fighting over in Iraq. (Stephen Jaffe / AFP-Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation -
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Horror in Fallujah
Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as charred bodies hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad on March 31 2004. Enraged Iraqis killed four contractors, took the charred bodies from a burning SUV, dragged them through the streets and hung them from the bridge. (Khalid Mohammed / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Coming home
The flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers are carefully strapped down and checked before being returned to the United States aboard military aircraft on May 1, 2003. This image caused controversy because it was photographed when journalists were barred from witnessing the return of the fallen to Dover Air Base. The images were taken by Tami Silicio, a worker for a military contractor in Kuwait. She and her husband were fired. (Tami Silicio / ZUMA Press) Back to slideshow navigation -
Saying goodbye
Kraig Bowen gives a last-minute hug to his children Katelyn and Kaleb before he left for Fort Hood, Texas, with the rest of the 199th Support Battalion of the Louisiana National Guard's 256th Infantry Enhanced Separate Brigade on April 29, 2004, in St. Martinville, La. After training in Texas, the Guard members headed to Iraq. (John Rowland / The Daily Advertiser via AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Abu Ghraib controversy
A naked detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison is tethered by a leash held by a prison guard Army Pvt. Lynndie England in these undated photos. These photos were released May 6, 2004. The images caused a worldwide outcry at the treatment of the prisoners by the U.S. military. (The Washington Post) Back to slideshow navigation -
Offering comfort
A U.S. Army soldier comforts a child fatally wounded in a suicide car bomb blast in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, on May 2, 2005. (Michael Yon / US Army viaAP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Civil war rages
One of the two daughters of Jalil Shaalan, a security guard at a school, reacts after her father was gunned down in front of them outside of the school compound by unknown gunmen in the Amarayah district of Baghdad on July 21, 2005. (Hadi Mizban / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Saying goodbye
Cyndi Quinton, wife of Army Spc. Bryan Quinton, 24, cries during her husband's graveside service at Green Hill Cemetery in Sapulpa, Okla., on May 17, 2006. Quinton and another soldier were killed May 4 when a roadside bomb went off near their military vehicle in Baghdad. (Brandi Simons / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Memorial Day tribute
Mary McHugh mourns her fiance, Sgt. James Regan, at "Section 60" of Arlington National Cemetery on May 27, 2007. Regan, a Special Forces soldier, was killed by a bomb explosion in Iraq that February. This was the first time that McHugh had visited the grave since the funeral. (John Moore / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation -
First deployment
Pfc. Pete Morris, holding his 4-month-old daughter, Gabrielle, sits next to his wife, Erin Morris, on Jan. 16, 2007, at Fort Stewart, Ga., while waiting for his brigade to deploy to Iraq for a year. This was Morris's first deployment, but for many of the soldiers of his brigade it was the third tour of duty in Iraq since the division led the push into Baghdad in 2003. (Stephen Morton / World Picture News) Back to slideshow navigation
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