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Latife has been working in the mines since he was 16 and fought with Ahmed Shah Massoud against the Russians in the 1980s and the Taliban after that. Most of the men at the times are deeply independent and conservative and trying to make a living from the back breaking work. OCTOBER 25, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Moulana Latife, 45, prays on an outstretched jacket at the mouth of his mine in the mountains overlooking the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Thursday October 25, 2007. Latife has been working in the mines since he was 16 and fought with Ahmed Shah Massoud against the Russians in the 1980s and the Taliban after that. Most of the men at the times are deeply independent and conservative and trying to make a living from the back breaking work. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds002.jpg OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Muhammad Zaid, 19, uses a Swiss jack hammer to make holes in the rock to place explosive in the mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Zaid who is recently married with a child has only been been working in the mines with his father for a few months, but having the strongest back means he works the bucking jackhammer. With his father's help Zaid found a promising vein in the rock and has started his own mine. Zaid's most successful find has been from an emerald found on the ground in the middle of the night after he found thieves plundering his mine. OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Muhammad Zaid, 19, uses a Swiss jack hammer to make holes in the rock to place explosive in the mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Zaid who is recently married with a child has only been been working in the mines with his father for a few months, but having the strongest back means he works the bucking jackhammer. With his father's help Zaid found a promising vein in the rock and has started his own mine. Zaid's most successful find has been from an emerald found on the ground in the middle of the night after he found thieves plundering his mine. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds003.jpg OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Detonated dynamite throws rock and dust shooting out of an emerald mine on the rock face of the mountains above the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Powdered explosive are shoved into holes that are drilled into the rock with a wood pole. A detonator is then inserted with a fuse and ignited. The miners blast rock as they follow promising veins looking for prized emeralds. The blast can be heard all the way to the village below and felt in the rocks of the mountain as miners work in adjacent mines. OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Detonated dynamite throws rock and dust shooting out of an emerald mine on the rock face of the mountains above the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Powdered explosive are shoved into holes that are drilled into the rock with a wood pole. A detonator is then inserted with a fuse and ignited. The miners blast rock as they follow promising veins looking for prized emeralds. The blast can be heard all the way to the village below and felt in the rocks of the mountain as miners work in adjacent mines. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds004.jpg OCTOBER 25, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Ahmad Lais Amin, 22, right, looks for signs of emerald in a handful of dirt he has excavated as, Aziz, a miner from a nearby cave holds the light and looks for signs of success in the slope of the Hindu Kush mountains towering over the Panjshir Valley near the village of Khenj, in Afghanistan on Thursday October 25, 2007. Miners sometimes drop in on promising excavations to snoop for better locations or to watch a big find. OCTOBER 25, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Ahmad Lais Amin, 22, right, looks for signs of emerald in a handful of dirt he has excavated as, Aziz, a miner from a nearby cave holds the light and looks for signs of success in the slope of the Hindu Kush mountains towering over the Panjshir Valley near the village of Khenj, in Afghanistan on Thursday October 25, 2007. Miners sometimes drop in on promising excavations to snoop for better locations or to watch a big find. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds005.jpg OCTOBER 25, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Ahmad Jawead, 22, center, works with the mechanic of the mountain, Mohammad Israar, 46, left, and his hired hand Rahimullah, 27, as they try to start a Chinese made motor that creates compressed air for his air pressure operated rock drill in the mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Thursday October 25, 2007. The motor has a hand crank but they hope by heating up the carburetor they can help to prime it to start. OCTOBER 25, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Ahmad Jawead, 22, center, works with the mechanic of the mountain, Mohammad Israar, 46, left, and his hired hand Rahimullah, 27, as they try to start a Chinese made motor that creates compressed air for his air pressure operated rock drill in the mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Thursday October 25, 2007. The motor has a hand crank but they hope by heating up the carburetor they can help to prime it to start. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds006.jpg OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN With excitement Ahmad Jawead, 22, shovels and picks his way through rock after having blasted the rock in his 60-meter deep mine looking for emeralds in the mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Jawead has been working his mine for seven months straight looking for an emerald large enough to buy his way out of Afghanistan. After declaring his desire to leave the country and asking for help his family forbid him to leave. Now he blasts the rock hoping to fund his own way out of the country. OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN With excitement Ahmad Jawead, 22, shovels and picks his way through rock after having blasted the rock in his 60-meter deep mine looking for emeralds in the mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Jawead has been working his mine for seven months straight looking for an emerald large enough to buy his way out of Afghanistan. After declaring his desire to leave the country and asking for help his family forbid him to leave. Now he blasts the rock hoping to fund his own way out of the country. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds007.jpg OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN An emerald worker is perched on a rock next to his generator and compressor that operate his air pressure driven rock drill as the morning sun creeps over the Western face of the mountain above the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. The river of mine tailings can been seen in the mountain in the background. The miners' work is of environmental concern and the miners often also extract and dump valuable metals that exist around the emerald according to Mohamad Ibrahim, the Minister of the Mines and Industry Ministry in Kabul. OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN An emerald worker is perched on a rock next to his generator and compressor that operate his air pressure driven rock drill as the morning sun creeps over the Western face of the mountain above the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. The river of mine tailings can been seen in the mountain in the background. The miners' work is of environmental concern and the miners often also extract and dump valuable metals that exist around the emerald according to Mohamad Ibrahim, the Minister of the Mines and Industry Ministry in Kabul. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds008.jpg OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN With the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj visible thousands of feet below, emerald miners reinforce the roof of their mountainside tent home in Panjshir province, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. The miners haul water from an abandoned mine that now is full of spring water but have to haul all other provisions from the village below. Gas stoves heat water for washing and gas lamps provide light for the mines and tents. Generators are reserved to operate jack hammers and air compressors for mining drills. OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN With the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj visible thousands of feet below, emerald miners reinforce the roof of their mountainside tent home in Panjshir province, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. The miners haul water from an abandoned mine that now is full of spring water but have to haul all other provisions from the village below. Gas stoves heat water for washing and gas lamps provide light for the mines and tents. Generators are reserved to operate jack hammers and air compressors for mining drills. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds009.jpg OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Having delivered a lunch of rice and lamb meat, Rahimullah, 27, scales the sheer rock face back to the stone cabin where he will clean up the pots and pans from the meal before returning to continue mining on mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Having delivered a lunch of rice and lamb meat, Rahimullah, 27, scales the sheer rock face back to the stone cabin where he will clean up the pots and pans from the meal before returning to continue mining on mountains over the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds010.jpg OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Ahmad Jawead, 22, left, Rahimullah, 27, center, and Burhan Amin, 26, right, share a breakfast of cream, bread, jam and tea as they make the day's bread on a gas burner in their stone one-room home in the mountains next to the mine they work above the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Ahmad Jawead and Burhan Amin are cousins and hire Rahimullah to help with the work of the mines. Teams of five to ten men, sometimes friends or family, work as partners in the mines. OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Ahmad Jawead, 22, left, Rahimullah, 27, center, and Burhan Amin, 26, right, share a breakfast of cream, bread, jam and tea as they make the day's bread on a gas burner in their stone one-room home in the mountains next to the mine they work above the Panjshir Valley village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Ahmad Jawead and Burhan Amin are cousins and hire Rahimullah to help with the work of the mines. Teams of five to ten men, sometimes friends or family, work as partners in the mines. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds011.jpg OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN An emerald miner uses a hand held mirror with an image of an model from India after washing himself in the morning in the emerald mines above Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. The labor of the mines is conducted by young men who spend a week to seven months on the side of the mountains where no women work. OCTOBER 24, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN An emerald miner uses a hand held mirror with an image of an model from India after washing himself in the morning in the emerald mines above Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. The labor of the mines is conducted by young men who spend a week to seven months on the side of the mountains where no women work. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds012.jpg OCTOBER 25, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN After setting off dynamite charges in the mine Rahimullah, 27, takes a smoke break as he waits for the dust to clear the shaft of a mineral mine on the slope of the Hindu Kush mountains over the Panjshir Valley near the village of Khenj, in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 25, 2007. Rahimullah is a hired hand who works for a team of young men who blast and drill holes in the mountains looking for emeralds and precious stones. The young men who work the mines were boys when the Taliban fell six years ago. The mines were a way to fund the jehad most of their father’s participated in but now the young men dig, hoping to find a rock large enough to feed their families or to give them enough money to escape the work of the mines. OCTOBER 25, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN After setting off dynamite charges in the mine Rahimullah, 27, takes a smoke break as he waits for the dust to clear the shaft of a mineral mine on the slope of the Hindu Kush mountains over the Panjshir Valley near the village of Khenj, in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 25, 2007. Rahimullah is a hired hand who works for a team of young men who blast and drill holes in the mountains looking for emeralds and precious stones. The young men who work the mines were boys when the Taliban fell six years ago. The mines were a way to fund the jehad most of their father’s participated in but now the young men dig, hoping to find a rock large enough to feed their families or to give them enough money to escape the work of the mines. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds013.jpg OCTOBER 26, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Having returned to the village of Khenj with a week's worth of emeralds a buyers looks at a group of emeralds being sold for $3,500 in the village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Friday, October 26, 2007. Emeralds sold in the village usually go for double that price in town and several times that, depending on their quality, outside of the country. OCTOBER 26, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Having returned to the village of Khenj with a week's worth of emeralds a buyers looks at a group of emeralds being sold for $3,500 in the village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Friday, October 26, 2007. Emeralds sold in the village usually go for double that price in town and several times that, depending on their quality, outside of the country. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds014.jpg OCTOBER 25, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Burhan Amin, 26, prays in the one-room stone house he shares with the rest of his team of miners on the slopes of the Hindu Kush mountains towering over the Panjshir Valley near the village of Khenj, in Afghanistan on Thursday October 25, 2007. Amin, 26, has a kidney ailment that does not allow him to work, brought on from years of battling the mountain for emeralds. Instead of manning the rock drill, Amin prepares the meals of rice, bread, lamb meat and tea for grime-covered miners. Even with this light duty, he sometimes feels too ill to work. “Most of the time I am sick. Those days when I am not feeling well, because there is the mountain and it is the work of the mountain. If we work from the morning till night, you will know how much you get tired,” Amin said. OCTOBER 25, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Burhan Amin, 26, prays in the one-room stone house he shares with the rest of his team of miners on the slopes of the Hindu Kush mountains towering over the Panjshir Valley near the village of Khenj, in Afghanistan on Thursday October 25, 2007. Amin, 26, has a kidney ailment that does not allow him to work, brought on from years of battling the mountain for emeralds. Instead of manning the rock drill, Amin prepares the meals of rice, bread, lamb meat and tea for grime-covered miners. Even with this light duty, he sometimes feels too ill to work. “Most of the time I am sick. Those days when I am not feeling well, because there is the mountain and it is the work of the mountain. If we work from the morning till night, you will know how much you get tired,” Amin said. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/10242007_Becherer_Emeralds015.jpg OCTOBER 26, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Emerald buyers from Kabul, Hiatullah, left, and Gulalam, right, look at a pocketful of emeralds brought down the mountain in the village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Friday, October 26, 2007. Most miners keep their emeralds in a plastic package. Usually the partners in a mine will weigh, count, then wrap the emeralds they find, signing the wrapping to insure they all agree on what was found. Then the package is opened again when it reaches the village and is sold. OCTOBER 26, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Emerald buyers from Kabul, Hiatullah, left, and Gulalam, right, look at a pocketful of emeralds brought down the mountain in the village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Friday, October 26, 2007. Most miners keep their emeralds in a plastic package. Usually the partners in a mine will weigh, count, then wrap the emeralds they find, signing the wrapping to insure they all agree on what was found. Then the package is opened again when it reaches the village and is sold. https://maxbecherer.com/afghanistan:-the-longest-war 2026-06-10 monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar011.jpg War in Afghanistan NOVEMBER 8, 2007-KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Rows of Afghan dignitaries, military, police and mourners pay last respects to six parliamentarians including opposition leader Mustafa Kazimi, during a state funeral near the Darulaman Palace, in background, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday November 8, 2007. The lawmakers and six of their bodyguards, who were also killed in the attack, were buried together in a place of honor near the location of a planned new parliament building. Thousands attended the official ceremony during the second of three national days of mourning for the 52 killed in a suicide attack in Baghlan province on Tuesday, November 6, 2007. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar030.jpg War in Afghanistan OCTOBER 26, 2007- KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Burhan Amin, 26, shines a light from the back of a cigarette lighter that projects the image of Osama bin Laden that he purchased from a shop in the village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Friday, October 26, 2007. Ten years after the September 11th attack on the United States bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar021.jpg War in Afghanistan MAY 20, 2010- SINGESAR, AFGHANISTAN American soldiers question a man who walked up on the American patrol. The American patrol received sniper fire all day causing them to look for scouts who might be telling the Taliban of their location during the patrol. The 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, A Company, operating out of Combat Outpost Lakhokhel in the Zhair district of Kandahar province searched several compounds and patrolled the village of Singesar and the surrounding area to talk to people of interest and to disrupt the Taliban operations closer to the main highway from Kandahar to Helmand province. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar018.jpg War in Afghanistan JUNE 11, 2010- MARJAH, AFGHANISTAN Marines of the first platoon of Lima company of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, shouts out the location of Taliban shooting at his fire team in northern Marjah. The Marines took cover in canals and returned fire. The Taliban fled on motorbikes 15 minutes after shooting at the Marines. Four months after a major offensive to secure Marjah, the 3rd battalion, 6th Marines continue to face resistance as they attempt to win over the population in the rural area, which is a major poppy production center. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar028.jpg War in Afghanistan APRIL 3, 2009- BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN The body of Captain Petre Tiberius is unloaded from a helicopter by fellow Romanian soldiers and American medical personnel at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan on April 3, 2009. The defense ministry in Bucharest, Romania announced Captain Petre Tiberius was killed in crossfire while leading a mission on Friday to support ISAF forces who had come under attack. Tiberius was transported by helicopter to a forward surgical hospital but died in transit. Romania has lost 10 soldiers in Afghanistan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical027.jpg EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY After receiving a Purple Heart from Major General McCarthy a wounded soldier recounts the attack that resulted in his wounds in Afghanistan at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The quick medical transportation system is efficient at treating physical wounds but the mental trauma suffered will take longer to treat. EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY After receiving a Purple Heart from Major General McCarthy a wounded soldier recounts the attack that resulted in his wounds in Afghanistan at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The quick medical transportation system is efficient at treating physical wounds but the mental trauma suffered will take longer to treat. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_Portraits004.jpg KABUL, AFGHANISTAN A young woman waits for an appointment at the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 20, 2010. As well as offering some of the most advanced technology, the hospital offers advanced care for young women in Kabul. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN A young woman waits for an appointment at the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 20, 2010. As well as offering some of the most advanced technology, the hospital offers advanced care for young women in Kabul. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar012.jpg War in Afghanistan APRIL 27, 2010- KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Patients practice walking with prosthetics received from the Red Cross along with other victims of mine blasts at the ICRC rehabilitation clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan on April 27, 2010. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) manages six physical rehabilitation centers across Afghanistan and maintains a workshop manufacturing prosthetic/orthotic limbs for war victims and those with other disabilities. The doors to the clinic are open to all Afghans who are wounded for any reason. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar024.jpg War in Afghanistan NOVEMBER 3, 2009- KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN An MQ-9 Reaper stands ready and fully armed on the flight line of Kandahar Air Field with four AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, one GBU-12 Paveway II, and one GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack munitions mounted on its wings. The United States Air Force's 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron launches the MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aircraft or drone, from Kandahar Air Field. The U.S. Air Force currently fields 10 of the $13 million aircraft which can be armed with a variety of guided bombs. The Reaper is controlled by a flight team in Kandahar for take-off and landings but is controlled for most of its 12 to 13 hour missions from a base in Nevada operated by the 42nd Attack Squadron. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar025.jpg War in Afghanistan NOVEMBER 3, 2009- KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN Pilots with the United States Air Force's 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron prepare to launch a MQ-1 Predator from the Kandahar Air Field from a trailer equipped with a full array of piloting computers and readouts on the flight line. The U.S. Air Force currently fields 130 of the $3 million aircraft which can be armed with two laser-guided AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar014.jpg War in Afghanistan OCTOBER 21, 2007-KABUL, AFGHANISTAN A DynCorp employee, center, monitors an Afghan police rifle course at a military range east of Kabul on Sunday October 21, 2007. The range is part of a Tactical Training Program (TTP) that is a follow-up and refresher to the first 8-week training the police received. The TTP gives Afghan police training in weapons, tactical movement as a team and classroom learning including criminal investigation training. Most of the classes are run by Afghan police teachers with mentoring and assistance by DynCorp employees. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar022.jpg War in Afghanistan MAY 20, 2010- SINGESAR, AFGHANISTAN American soldiers stagger into Combat Outpost Lakhokhel after a long day of battling the Taliban during a search of several compounds near the village of Singesar. The Americans suffered no casualties from enemy fire but did have several soldiers suffer heat exhaustion during a firefight. The 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, A Company operating out of Combat Outpost Lakhokhel in the Zhair district of Kandahar province searched several compounds and patrolled the village of Singesar and the surrounding area to talk to people and disrupt the Taliban operations closer to the main highway from Kandahar to Helmand province. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar027.jpg War in Afghanistan NOVEMBER 2, 2010- TALUKAN, AFGHANISTAN Sergeant Bryan Hulit, right, reads while fellow soldiers get some sleep on an Afghan bed they found in the compound they took over during their clearing operations in the village of Talukan. The 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, Third Brigade Combat Team, of the 101st Airborne Division started to clear the roads and houses of the village of Talukan in Pajwai district of Kandahar. The soldiers have found as many as 9 Improvised Explosive Devices all around the main market and roads leading into the village. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/BechererPortfolio022.jpg Kill Team Leader KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN. "Kill Team" leader Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs walks through a poppy field during a patrol to investigate one of the killings of an Afgha civilian he was connected to. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_AfghanWar019.jpg War in Afghanistan MAY 20, 2010- SINGESAR, AFGHANISTAN An American attack helicopter fires a missile at a Taliban position. The Taliban fired at the helicopter, and soldiers on the ground took sniper fire during their search. The 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, A Company operating out of Combat Outpost Lakhokhel in the Zhair district of Kandahar province searched several compounds and patrolled the village of Singesar and the surrounding area to talk to people and disrupt the Taliban operations closer to the main highway from Kandahar to Helmand province. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar020.jpg War in Afghanistan MAY 20, 2010- SINGESAR, AFGHANISTAN American soldiers watches as smokes rises from a rocket attack by American helicopters on a Taliban position. The patrol was harassed by a sniper and automatic weapons fire most of the morning. The 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, A Company operating out of Combat Outpost Lakhokhel in the Zhair district of Kandahar province searched several compounds and patrolled the village of Singesar and the surrounding area to talk to people and disrupt the Taliban operations closer to the main highway from Kandahar to Helmand province. Singesar is a Taliban stronghold and the traditional homeland of Taliban leader Mullah Omar. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar026.jpg A Tough Fight with the Taliban in Marjah The Marines have been unable to get control of the Marjah District in Afghanistan, where the Taliban insurgency is thriving with support from Pakistan and revenues from opium trade in the region. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Afghanwar029.jpg War in Afghanistan NOVEMBER 3, 2010- TALUKAN, AFGHANISTAN American soldiers watches as a villager who lost his house after the Americans dropped bombs on it the night before sheds tears. The villager alerted the Americans to the fact that the Taliban where holed up in his home. The Americans then bombed the home the following night. The man now was asking for compensation as everything he owned was destroyed in the attack. He now lives outside of town in a tent and was asking for food and clothing for this children. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/BechererPortfolio003.jpg Afghanistan: The Longest War | Max Becherer-Visual Journalist/Photo Editor View Afghanistan: The Longest War by Max Becherer-Visual Journalist/Photo Editor. https://maxbecherer.com/home 2026-06-10 monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi001.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN In a rare respite from the rigors of their work in the emerald mines in the mountains high over their village or from workshops and business, the men of Khenj, Afghanistan, compete in a game of Buzkashi on Friday, October 26, 2007. The popular game, banned under that Taliban, is a match between villagers on horseback pitted against each other to grab the carcass of a dead goat, or in this case, a dead calf, with its head cut off, from one location in the playing field, around a flag and set in a circle in another location. Each time a rider successfully completes the task he is cheered by the crowd gathered under the fall leaves in the shadow of the Hindu Kush. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi002.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Riders chase down the man with the calf as they try to prevent him from dropping it in the circle during a game of Buzkashi in Khenj, Afghanistan on Friday, October 26, 2007. Each time a rider successfully completes the task he is cheered by the village and wins money. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi003.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN With the sound of screaming horses and whips, horsemen try to beat their horses to get them into the scrum where they will try to reach down to the ground from their horse and pick up the carcass of a dead calf. The popular game, banned under the Taliban, is a match between villagers on horseback pitted against each other with the winner earning a sizable cash prize. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi004.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN With the sound of screaming horses and whips, a horsemen with his whip in his mouth tries to reach down from his horse to pick up the carcass of a dead calf. on Friday, October 26, 2007. In a rare respite from the rigors of their work in the emerald mines in the mountains high over their village or from workshops and businesses in the village, the men of Khenj, Afghanistan, compete in a game of buzkashi. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi005.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN The men of Khenj, Afghanistan, watch a game of buzkashi on Friday, October 26, 2007. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi006.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN A horseman emerges from the dust of a duel for a dead calf on Friday, October 26, 2007. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi007.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN A horseman of Khenj, Afghanistan, waits to compete in a game of buzkashi dressed in heavy clothing to protect him from the violence of the game and a hat made of fur. The popular game, banned under the Taliban, is a match between villagers on horseback pitted against each other to grab the carcass of a dead goat, or in this case, a dead calf, with its head cut off, and then bring it from one location in the playing field, around a flag and set it in a circle in another location. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi008.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN With the sound of screaming horses and whips, horsemen try to reach down from their horses to pick up the carcass of a dead calf on Friday, October 26, 2007. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi009.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN The men of Khenj, Afghanistan, compete in a game of buzkashi. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi010.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN Successfully grabbing the 100-pound dead calf, a rider races to bring it to the circle for a win. The rider successfully completed the task and was cheered by the crowd gathered under the fall leaves in the shadow of the Hindu Kush and given the prize money. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01142013_Becherer_Buzkashi011.jpg Game of Afghanistan KHENJ, AFGHANISTAN A car with a photo of the revered leader of the Panjshir resistance against the Russian invasion, Ahmed Shah Massoud, drives past horsemen after a buzkashi match in the village of Khenj, Afghanistan on October 26, 2007. https://maxbecherer.com/the-dark-days-iraq 2026-06-10 monthly 0.8 https://maxbecherer.com/iraq-rebuilding 2026-06-10 monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn001.jpg BAGHDAD, IRAQ A crane worker stands on top of a blast wall while helping to move it to open al Kifah Street and the border between the Sunni and Shia parts of the Fadhil neighborhood of Baghdad. The Fadhil neighborhood was a center of sectarian and militia activity but security has improved in the neighborhood enough to take down the blast wall on the main street that is traditionally a shopping area for basic industrial goods. Members of the Sunni and Shiite Awakening councils, Iraqi military and U.S. Army came together after iftar, the meal breaking the fast during the month of Ramadan, to celebrate the event. BAGHDAD, IRAQ A crane worker stands on top of a blast wall while helping to move it to open al Kifah Street and the border between the Sunni and Shia parts of the Fadhil neighborhood of Baghdad. The Fadhil neighborhood was a center of sectarian and militia activity but security has improved in the neighborhood enough to take down the blast wall on the main street that is traditionally a shopping area for basic industrial goods. Members of the Sunni and Shiite Awakening councils, Iraqi military and U.S. Army came together after iftar, the meal breaking the fast during the month of Ramadan, to celebrate the event. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn002.jpg BAGHDAD, IRAQ Dressed in their holiday best, Iraqis enjoy Abu Nuwas Park along the Tigris River in Baghdad during Eid Al-Fitr on October 3, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq. Because of the improved security situation, Iraqis in large numbers were able to celebrate the Eid Al-Fitr holiday with family picnics and walks along the riverfront situated opposite the American Embassy and Iraqi government compound know as the Green Zone in Baghdad. Eid Al-Fitr marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. BAGHDAD, IRAQ Dressed in their holiday best, Iraqis enjoy Abu Nuwas Park along the Tigris River in Baghdad during Eid Al-Fitr on October 3, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq. Because of the improved security situation, Iraqis in large numbers were able to celebrate the Eid Al-Fitr holiday with family picnics and walks along the riverfront situated opposite the American Embassy and Iraqi government compound know as the Green Zone in Baghdad. Eid Al-Fitr marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn003.jpg BASARA, IRAQ The crown jewel of the al Moosawi Mosque is this massive handmade, one and a quarter ton, crystal chandelier that was paid for and built by members of the mosque. Abdul Redha al Moosawi, right, who represents the al Moosawi Group, gives a tour to attorney, Dr. Florian Amereller, left, and General Manager Wolf-Michael Baeume of MDC, center in background, at the al Moosawi Mosque. The al Moosawi Group, a Shiite tribal congregation that has succeeded in maintaining successful businesses by staying out of politics during the ravaging civil war in Iraq following the U.S.-led invasion, represents 16 different businesses that include a hospital, real estate, and oil services companies. German attorney, Dr. Florian Amereller, and experienced General Manager Wolf-Michael Baeume are partners with Iraqi businessman Johny Paulus in the MDC Iraq Development Company GmbH. The newly minted partnership is the one of the first forays back into Iraq’s business market after the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The company is working with the German government’s liaison office for Industry and Commerce who operates out of a room in MDC’s office. The focus of the business is on serving the oil and gas, electricity, water, medical and construction needs of Iraq with high quality German products and experience. BASARA, IRAQ The crown jewel of the al Moosawi Mosque is this massive handmade, one and a quarter ton, crystal chandelier that was paid for and built by members of the mosque. Abdul Redha al Moosawi, right, who represents the al Moosawi Group, gives a tour to attorney, Dr. Florian Amereller, left, and General Manager Wolf-Michael Baeume of MDC, center in background, at the al Moosawi Mosque. The al Moosawi Group, a Shiite tribal congregation that has succeeded in maintaining successful businesses by staying out of politics during the ravaging civil war in Iraq following the U.S.-led invasion, represents 16 different businesses that include a hospital, real estate, and oil services companies. German attorney, Dr. Florian Amereller, and experienced General Manager Wolf-Michael Baeume are partners with Iraqi businessman Johny Paulus in the MDC Iraq Development Company GmbH. The newly minted partnership is the one of the first forays back into Iraq’s business market after the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The company is working with the German government’s liaison office for Industry and Commerce who operates out of a room in MDC’s office. The focus of the business is on serving the oil and gas, electricity, water, medical and construction needs of Iraq with high quality German products and experience. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn004.jpg ULAYMANIYAH, IRAQ People are reflected in a mirror of a roadside sunglasses vendor at Sulaymaniyah’s main market in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. More merchandise is available for sale in Iraq’s Kurdish region since its border with Turkey provides a safe entry to the area. As the rest of Iraq struggles with sectarian killings and an insurgency, the mostly homogenous Kurdish north prospers and benefits from reconstruction projects. Since the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds have sought to have an autonomous country, and still today many Kurds express their desire to make themselves independent from the troubles of greater Iraq. ULAYMANIYAH, IRAQ People are reflected in a mirror of a roadside sunglasses vendor at Sulaymaniyah’s main market in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. More merchandise is available for sale in Iraq’s Kurdish region since its border with Turkey provides a safe entry to the area. As the rest of Iraq struggles with sectarian killings and an insurgency, the mostly homogenous Kurdish north prospers and benefits from reconstruction projects. Since the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds have sought to have an autonomous country, and still today many Kurds express their desire to make themselves independent from the troubles of greater Iraq. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn005.jpg BAGHDAD, IRAQ Empty Coke bottles sit on a break table next to a table of Iraqi dinars in the bank vault at the Iraq Middle East Investment Bank on Monday July 10, 2006. The rate of inflation in Iraq was recorded at 3.60 percent in 2012. That's progress compared to the all-time high of 17.2 percent reached in August of 2006. BAGHDAD, IRAQ Empty Coke bottles sit on a break table next to a table of Iraqi dinars in the bank vault at the Iraq Middle East Investment Bank on Monday July 10, 2006. The rate of inflation in Iraq was recorded at 3.60 percent in 2012. That's progress compared to the all-time high of 17.2 percent reached in August of 2006. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn006.jpg BASRA, IRAQ Kris Murthi, a project manager for Kellogg Brown and Root, explains the operation of a South Oil Company gas oil separation plant where crude oil is piped from wells in the South Ramallah oil fields. In 2012 Iraq became one of the premier producers in OPEC with production reaching 2.5 million barrels of oil a day. Iraq sits on the world's third largest known oil reserves. BASRA, IRAQ Kris Murthi, a project manager for Kellogg Brown and Root, explains the operation of a South Oil Company gas oil separation plant where crude oil is piped from wells in the South Ramallah oil fields. In 2012 Iraq became one of the premier producers in OPEC with production reaching 2.5 million barrels of oil a day. Iraq sits on the world's third largest known oil reserves. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn007.jpg NASIRIYAH, IRAQ Iraqi Policeman Mohammad Nassir stands guard under one of the main bridges leading into the city of Nasiriyah over the Euphrates River. The bridges were key to attacking American forces in order to get their heavy tanks and armor over the river. Nassir was a child when the Americans first came in but he remembers seeing the Americans attacking several of the houses near the bridge on March 23, 2003. He now works as an Iraq Policeman guarding the bridge and watching for suicide bombers entering the city. NASIRIYAH, IRAQ Iraqi Policeman Mohammad Nassir stands guard under one of the main bridges leading into the city of Nasiriyah over the Euphrates River. The bridges were key to attacking American forces in order to get their heavy tanks and armor over the river. Nassir was a child when the Americans first came in but he remembers seeing the Americans attacking several of the houses near the bridge on March 23, 2003. He now works as an Iraq Policeman guarding the bridge and watching for suicide bombers entering the city. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn008.jpg BAQUBA, IRAQ A women kisses a child as the family departs a polling site of the provincial elections in the city of Baquba on January 1, 2009. Iraq will hold provincial elections in April 2013 in all provinces except for the disputed oil rich city of Kirkuk. Iraq's government has continued to lead the country after the American departure although discontent and protests are on the rise. BAQUBA, IRAQ A women kisses a child as the family departs a polling site of the provincial elections in the city of Baquba on January 1, 2009. Iraq will hold provincial elections in April 2013 in all provinces except for the disputed oil rich city of Kirkuk. Iraq's government has continued to lead the country after the American departure although discontent and protests are on the rise. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn009.jpg NAJAF, IRAQ Shiite worshipers perform the evening prayer at the holy shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, Iraq on Thursday January 6, 2010. In 2004 Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army took over the shrine and fought American forces in the city in a bloody battle. Residents of the city have mixed feelings about al-Sadr's return. Anti-American cleric al-Sadr led Shiite resistance fighters against the American-led forces in several bloody battles before fleeing into exile in Iran over four years ago. His return to Iraq is being welcomed by his supporters. NAJAF, IRAQ Shiite worshipers perform the evening prayer at the holy shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, Iraq on Thursday January 6, 2010. In 2004 Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army took over the shrine and fought American forces in the city in a bloody battle. Residents of the city have mixed feelings about al-Sadr's return. Anti-American cleric al-Sadr led Shiite resistance fighters against the American-led forces in several bloody battles before fleeing into exile in Iran over four years ago. His return to Iraq is being welcomed by his supporters. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn010.jpg BAGHDAD, IRAQ People find protection from the 100-degree heat as they watch over 70,000 unarmed men loyal to the anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr march in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, on Thursday May 26, 2011. BAGHDAD, IRAQ People find protection from the 100-degree heat as they watch over 70,000 unarmed men loyal to the anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr march in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, on Thursday May 26, 2011. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqDawn011.jpg BASARA, IRAQ Mohammed Qusai, left, gets instructions from his father on how to operate the buttons on a coin operated helicopter ride at the tent market in downtown Basra, Iraq on August 21, 2010. Helicopters have been a constant reminder of war for Iraqis as Saddam Hussein used them under the treaty of the 1991 Gulf War and terrorized Shiite resistance fighters who rose up during the Gulf War thinking the Americans would overthrow Saddam. Since 2003 American and British helicopters have been the main transportation of foreign soldiers around the country because the roads proved too dangerous. The current Iraqi Air Force has around 150 helicopters and plans to buy American made F-16 fighter jets. BASARA, IRAQ Mohammed Qusai, left, gets instructions from his father on how to operate the buttons on a coin operated helicopter ride at the tent market in downtown Basra, Iraq on August 21, 2010. Helicopters have been a constant reminder of war for Iraqis as Saddam Hussein used them under the treaty of the 1991 Gulf War and terrorized Shiite resistance fighters who rose up during the Gulf War thinking the Americans would overthrow Saddam. Since 2003 American and British helicopters have been the main transportation of foreign soldiers around the country because the roads proved too dangerous. The current Iraqi Air Force has around 150 helicopters and plans to buy American made F-16 fighter jets. https://maxbecherer.com/election-day-martyr 2026-06-10 monthly 0.8 https://maxbecherer.com/doctors-of-war 2026-06-10 monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical001.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Nurses unload Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, from a medical evacuation Black Hawk helicopter after it landed at the helipad of the Air Force Theater Hospital operated by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group on the Balad Air Base in central Iraq. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Nurses unload Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, from a medical evacuation Black Hawk helicopter after it landed at the helipad of the Air Force Theater Hospital operated by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group on the Balad Air Base in central Iraq. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical002.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A wounded soldier and fellow Marine sent as care taker rush to the emergency room of the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq on August 27, 2005. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A wounded soldier and fellow Marine sent as care taker rush to the emergency room of the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq on August 27, 2005. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical003.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A wounded soldier is wheeled into the Air Force Theater Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, at Balad Air Base, on October 30, 2005. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A wounded soldier is wheeled into the Air Force Theater Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, at Balad Air Base, on October 30, 2005. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical004.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Emergency room doctor, Major Corey Harrison at the Theater Medical Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, takes his flak vest off as he rushes to treat wounded American soldiers in Balad, Iraq on October 30, 2005. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Emergency room doctor, Major Corey Harrison at the Theater Medical Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, takes his flak vest off as he rushes to treat wounded American soldiers in Balad, Iraq on October 30, 2005. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical005.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ The medical staff at the Air Force Theater Hospital run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base treats wounded American soldiers. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ The medical staff at the Air Force Theater Hospital run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base treats wounded American soldiers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical006.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Commander of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, Colonel Elisha Powell, left, gets information from a newly arrived wounded soldiers. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Commander of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, Colonel Elisha Powell, left, gets information from a newly arrived wounded soldiers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical007A.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Colonel John Ingari, assistant commander of the Air Force Theater Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base, inspects the body of a wounded American soldier for additional wounds perhaps unseen by the flight medic. Improvised explosive devices cause the most trauma seen in the emergency room, and the shrapnel from those blasts can easily be overlooked by flight medics. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Colonel John Ingari, assistant commander of the Air Force Theater Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base, inspects the body of a wounded American soldier for additional wounds perhaps unseen by the flight medic. Improvised explosive devices cause the most trauma seen in the emergency room, and the shrapnel from those blasts can easily be overlooked by flight medics. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical008.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Doctors and nurses of the Air Force Theater Hospital treat Lance Corporal Beyers who was injured by an improvised explosive device that injured him and six other Marines with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment in Hit, Iraq on Friday, August 26. Lance Corporal Beyers lost his right arm and half of his right leg in the attack. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Doctors and nurses of the Air Force Theater Hospital treat Lance Corporal Beyers who was injured by an improvised explosive device that injured him and six other Marines with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment in Hit, Iraq on Friday, August 26. Lance Corporal Beyers lost his right arm and half of his right leg in the attack. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical009.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ General surgeon, Flight Lieutenant Collette Richards rubs the head of Lance Corporal Mark Beyers, 26, of Elma, New York, as he lies in a coma at the Air Force Theater Hospital on the Balad Air Base in Balad, Iraq on August 27, 2005. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ General surgeon, Flight Lieutenant Collette Richards rubs the head of Lance Corporal Mark Beyers, 26, of Elma, New York, as he lies in a coma at the Air Force Theater Hospital on the Balad Air Base in Balad, Iraq on August 27, 2005. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical010.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ CT scan technician, Staff Sergeant Kelly Dewey, looks at the brain scan of Marlon Salcepalma through a CT scanner looking for internal bleeding after he received an RPG blast to the body at Balad Air Base, on October 30, 2005. Such modern technology so far forward on the battlefield is what helps keep the number of patients who die once they reach the hospital down to 4.2%, according to Colonel Elisha Powell. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ CT scan technician, Staff Sergeant Kelly Dewey, looks at the brain scan of Marlon Salcepalma through a CT scanner looking for internal bleeding after he received an RPG blast to the body at Balad Air Base, on October 30, 2005. Such modern technology so far forward on the battlefield is what helps keep the number of patients who die once they reach the hospital down to 4.2%, according to Colonel Elisha Powell. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical011.jpg OCTOBER 31, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ New medical techniques like the external fixator, being inserted into a wounded soldier's leg with a drill seen here, is just one innovation that was tested in the battlefield hospital in an effort to try to more quickly heal the shattering wounds caused by improvised explosive devices. OCTOBER 31, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ New medical techniques like the external fixator, being inserted into a wounded soldier's leg with a drill seen here, is just one innovation that was tested in the battlefield hospital in an effort to try to more quickly heal the shattering wounds caused by improvised explosive devices. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical012.jpg OCTOBER 31, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Colonel Elisha Powell the commander of the Theater Medical Hospital of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, at Balad Air Base takes his mask off and cleans up in the field and tent operating room where he prepares wounded soldiers for their flight to Germany for more advanced surgery. OCTOBER 31, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Colonel Elisha Powell the commander of the Theater Medical Hospital of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, at Balad Air Base takes his mask off and cleans up in the field and tent operating room where he prepares wounded soldiers for their flight to Germany for more advanced surgery. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical013.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Corporal John Apollony, center, holds the hand of fellow Marine, Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling, after finding each other in the hospital in Balad on August 27, 2005. Corporal Apollony, who was in the hospital for a fractured hand, heard Schilling was injured in an improvised explosive device attack in Hit, Iraq the day before. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Corporal John Apollony, center, holds the hand of fellow Marine, Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling, after finding each other in the hospital in Balad on August 27, 2005. Corporal Apollony, who was in the hospital for a fractured hand, heard Schilling was injured in an improvised explosive device attack in Hit, Iraq the day before. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical014.jpg NOVEMBER 1, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Tech Sergeant Darrell Waite, right, with the Critical Care Aeromedical Team (CCAT) transport a critically wounded Marine from the Balad Theater Medical Hospital in Balad, Iraq to a waiting aircraft ready to fly to Landstuhl, Germany. NOVEMBER 1, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Tech Sergeant Darrell Waite, right, with the Critical Care Aeromedical Team (CCAT) transport a critically wounded Marine from the Balad Theater Medical Hospital in Balad, Iraq to a waiting aircraft ready to fly to Landstuhl, Germany. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical015.jpg NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Wounded are transported from the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF) at Baled Air Base to a bus which will transport them to a C-17 aircraft that will take them on a 5-hour flight to Germany. The CASF manages the movement of the full range of injured soldiers who have to be transported out of Iraq for care. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Wounded are transported from the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF) at Baled Air Base to a bus which will transport them to a C-17 aircraft that will take them on a 5-hour flight to Germany. The CASF manages the movement of the full range of injured soldiers who have to be transported out of Iraq for care. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical016.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Flight medics make final adjustments to the medicine that Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling will receive before he is transported by a C-141 out of Balad Air Base in central Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Flight medics make final adjustments to the medicine that Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling will receive before he is transported by a C-141 out of Balad Air Base in central Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical017.jpg NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Wounded American soldiers are carefully placed onto a C-17 cargo aircraft by a Critical Care Aeromedical Team (CCAT) who will monitor and given medication to relax and ease the pain of air transport for the wounded. Thanks to the rapidity of the transport from the battlefield to the hospital, soldiers can expect a 96% chance of survival from their wounds once they make it to the hospital. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Wounded American soldiers are carefully placed onto a C-17 cargo aircraft by a Critical Care Aeromedical Team (CCAT) who will monitor and given medication to relax and ease the pain of air transport for the wounded. Thanks to the rapidity of the transport from the battlefield to the hospital, soldiers can expect a 96% chance of survival from their wounds once they make it to the hospital. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical018.jpg NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A member of the Air Evacuation Unit checks on wounded American soldiers being transported from the Air Force Theater Hospital in Iraq to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Thanks to the rapidity of the transport from the battlefield to the hospital, soldiers have a 96% chance of survival from their wounds once they make it to the hospital. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A member of the Air Evacuation Unit checks on wounded American soldiers being transported from the Air Force Theater Hospital in Iraq to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Thanks to the rapidity of the transport from the battlefield to the hospital, soldiers have a 96% chance of survival from their wounds once they make it to the hospital. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical019.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- OVER TURKEY Flight medical technician, Staff Sergeant Judd Everly from the 94th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron serves hot dogs to wounded soldier Staff Sergeant John Carroll, who has a broken hand, during the flight of a C-141 medical transport from Balad Air Base in central Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where he will receive treatment. The flight medics try to make sure the wounded have all of their medical and comfort needs taken care of during the flight. AUGUST 27, 2005- OVER TURKEY Flight medical technician, Staff Sergeant Judd Everly from the 94th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron serves hot dogs to wounded soldier Staff Sergeant John Carroll, who has a broken hand, during the flight of a C-141 medical transport from Balad Air Base in central Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where he will receive treatment. The flight medics try to make sure the wounded have all of their medical and comfort needs taken care of during the flight. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical020.jpg NOVEMBER 2, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY A wounded soldier is carried off of a C-17 aircraft to a rainy flight line at Ramstein Air Base after taking a five-hour flight from Iraq. Soldiers are transported on a C-17 plane from Iraq to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. The wounded are then transported to buses and driven to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center where their wounds will be further repaired, cleaned and treated. By the time the wounded reach Germany they face mainly operations of recovery as opposed to life saving operations. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY A wounded soldier is carried off of a C-17 aircraft to a rainy flight line at Ramstein Air Base after taking a five-hour flight from Iraq. Soldiers are transported on a C-17 plane from Iraq to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. The wounded are then transported to buses and driven to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center where their wounds will be further repaired, cleaned and treated. By the time the wounded reach Germany they face mainly operations of recovery as opposed to life saving operations. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical021.jpg AUGUST 28, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Specialist John Mora adjusts an x-ray machine for Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center of his amputated right leg and shrapnel ravaged left hand. The 162-bed Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American Hospital outside of the United States. The hospital serves wounded service members from Iraq with approximately 110 physicians, 250 nurses, 40 medical service corps officers, 900 enlisted personnel, and 550 civilian employees. AUGUST 28, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Specialist John Mora adjusts an x-ray machine for Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center of his amputated right leg and shrapnel ravaged left hand. The 162-bed Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American Hospital outside of the United States. The hospital serves wounded service members from Iraq with approximately 110 physicians, 250 nurses, 40 medical service corps officers, 900 enlisted personnel, and 550 civilian employees. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical022.jpg AUGUST 28, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling calls his family from the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany after arriving from Iraq overnight. AUGUST 28, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling calls his family from the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany after arriving from Iraq overnight. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical023.jpg AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Doctor Major Paul Phillips and the medical staff of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center prepare to clean and evaluate Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment after he arrived from Iraq with an amputated right leg and a shrapnel-damaged left hand. The 162-bed Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American hospital outside of the United States. AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Doctor Major Paul Phillips and the medical staff of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center prepare to clean and evaluate Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment after he arrived from Iraq with an amputated right leg and a shrapnel-damaged left hand. The 162-bed Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American hospital outside of the United States. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical024.jpg AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Doctor Major Paul Phillips, left, and the medical staff of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center prepare to clean and evaluate Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling’s amputated leg just hours after he arrives from Iraq. At this stage of treatment doctors are already shaping the amputated stump for optimal use with prosthetic legs. Bone that extends past the flesh must be cut back and the flesh cleansed for best recovery. With the majority of the wounds from Iraq accruing from roadside bombs, such operations are a daily procedure. AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Doctor Major Paul Phillips, left, and the medical staff of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center prepare to clean and evaluate Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling’s amputated leg just hours after he arrives from Iraq. At this stage of treatment doctors are already shaping the amputated stump for optimal use with prosthetic legs. Bone that extends past the flesh must be cut back and the flesh cleansed for best recovery. With the majority of the wounds from Iraq accruing from roadside bombs, such operations are a daily procedure. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical025.jpg AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Chaplin George Brubaker performs the communion for the sick with Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling in his Landstuhl Regional Medical Center bed. Lance Corporal Schilling is Catholic and comes from a farming family in rural Pennsylvania. His unit is a reserve Marne unit based out of Buffalo, New York. AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Chaplin George Brubaker performs the communion for the sick with Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling in his Landstuhl Regional Medical Center bed. Lance Corporal Schilling is Catholic and comes from a farming family in rural Pennsylvania. His unit is a reserve Marne unit based out of Buffalo, New York. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical026.jpg AUGUST 30, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Physical Therapist Maj. Ford David Paulson helps Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling choose which stretch of the hallway to tackle, the short way or the long way, as Schilling takes his first walker-assisted steps at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Schilling chose to take the longer trip. Schilling returned to his bed exhausted but satisfied that with a modern prosthetic limb, he would be able to walk again. Once back in the United States Schilling will join the ranks of approximately 5,557 soldiers who have suffered wounds in Iraq in the year 2005 alone. Some 15, 955 have been wounded since the start of the war according to information released by the United States government. AUGUST 30, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Physical Therapist Maj. Ford David Paulson helps Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling choose which stretch of the hallway to tackle, the short way or the long way, as Schilling takes his first walker-assisted steps at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Schilling chose to take the longer trip. Schilling returned to his bed exhausted but satisfied that with a modern prosthetic limb, he would be able to walk again. Once back in the United States Schilling will join the ranks of approximately 5,557 soldiers who have suffered wounds in Iraq in the year 2005 alone. Some 15, 955 have been wounded since the start of the war according to information released by the United States government. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical027.jpg EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY After receiving a Purple Heart from Major General McCarthy a wounded soldier recounts the attack that resulted in his wounds in Afghanistan at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The quick medical transportation system is efficient at treating physical wounds but the mental trauma suffered will take longer to treat. EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY After receiving a Purple Heart from Major General McCarthy a wounded soldier recounts the attack that resulted in his wounds in Afghanistan at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The quick medical transportation system is efficient at treating physical wounds but the mental trauma suffered will take longer to treat. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical028.jpg EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Four days after losing his leg from an improvised explosive device, Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling gets a hair cut at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. After more stabilizing surgeries in Germany he will be flown to the United States where he will be fitted with a prosthetic limb. EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Four days after losing his leg from an improvised explosive device, Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling gets a hair cut at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. After more stabilizing surgeries in Germany he will be flown to the United States where he will be fitted with a prosthetic limb. https://maxbecherer.com/medivac 2026-06-10 monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac001.jpg 2:35 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Specialist Elizabeth Shrode, a medic with the 54th Medical Evacuation unit, responds to a call to transport two wounded soldiers, from the location of an attack near Balad, to the Balad Theater Hospital. In preparation for the mission, Shrode dons her flight suit, bulletproof vest, and flight helmet. Nearing the end of a yearlong deployment, Shrode has flown hundreds of medical evacuation missions. The 54th Medical Evacuation unit responds to soldiers in central Iraq who need immediate medical evacuation and takes them directly to the largest and most advanced medical hospital in Iraq. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac002.jpg 2:46 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Specialist Elizabeth Shrode gets her first look of the landing zone where a wounded U.S. soldier waits for medical evacuation. During the fly-by, Shrode evaluates the security of the landing zone and the distance she will have to carry her equipment. Specialist Shrode speaks to the pilot over the radio and advises him on any adjustments to the approach she may want. As the trained lifesaver on the flight, Shrode leads the mission. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac003.jpg 2:48 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Crew chief, Specialist Brandon King unloads a stretcher as he provides security for Medic Elizabeth Shrode who has connected with the soldier on the ground to evaluate the patients. Medivac crews often land in hostile situations, so they strive to spend no more than 10 minutes on the ground. The crew chief monitors the loading and unloading of the aircraft and attempts to keep the pickup on schedule. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac004.jpg 2:49 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Upon arrival only one soldier is at the landing zone, and he appears to be dead. Specialist Shrode directs soldiers to load the stretcher on the chopper. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac005.jpg 2:49 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Upon arrival only one soldier is at the landing zone and he appears to be dead. Specialist Shrode directs soldiers to load the stretcher on the chopper. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac006.jpg 2:49 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A gravely wounded U.S. soldier is loaded onto the helicopter for medical evacuation. Only one of the two reported wounded was at the landing zone as one soldier was driven to the nearby hospital. Suffering from two severed legs and an open stomach wound, medics on the ground applied two tourniquets to the wounded soldier on the scene where his vehicle was ambushed by a grenade attack. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac007.jpg 2:50 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Specialist Elizabeth Shrode sees no signs of life as she choppers to the Balad Theater Medical Hospital. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac008.jpg 2:51 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ To feel for a pulse on the wrist, Specialist Shrode removes the patient’s watch. After feeling no sign of a pulse, Shrode refastened the dead soldier’s watch and held his hand for a few moments, as the helicopter raced to the hospital. Finding no signs of life, there was little left for Shrode to do but try to comfort the soldier in case there were any remaining tinges of life left. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac009.jpg 3:10 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ After the flight Specialist Shrode is debriefed. The soldier was killed as a result of the ambush on his convoy. https://maxbecherer.com/historic-louisiana-flooding 2026-06-10 monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/POYI_Becherer_Flood_0001A.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding In this aerial photo over Robert, La. USA, Louisiana Army National Guard vehicles drive on flooded U.S. Route 190 after heavy rains inundated the region, Robert, La. USA, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says more than 1,000 people in south Louisiana have been rescued from homes, vehicles and even clinging to trees as a slow-moving storm hammers the state with flooding. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/WorldPress_Becherer_Flood_0002.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding Danielle Blount kisses her 3-month-old baby Ember and feeds her while they wait to be evacuated by members of the Louisiana Army National Guard near Walker, La. USA, after heavy rains inundated the region, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016. Downpours in some areas of southern Louisiana came close to 2 feet over a 48-hour period according to the National Weather Service. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/WorldPress_Becherer_Flood_0003.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding People arrive to be evacuated by members of the Louisiana Army National Guard near Walker, La. USA, in heavy rain, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016. After Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act compelling first responders to save pets just as they save people. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said the Louisiana National Guard rescued more than 1,000 people and hundreds of pets. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/WorldPress_Becherer_Flood_0004.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding Sgt. Brad Stone of the Louisiana Army National Guard gives safety instructions to people loaded on a dump truck after they were stranded by rising flood water near Walker, La. USA, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016. Rescuers have evacuated more than 20,000 people since the flooding started Friday and more than 10,000 people were in shelters as of late Sunday, according to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/NPPA_Becherer_Singles_0002.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding PRAIRIEVILLE, LOUISIANA. Danny and Alys Messenger canoe away from their flooded home after reviewing the damage in Prairieville, La., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. Historic August flooding in southern Louisiana killed 13 people, forced tens of thousands of people to flee and damaged as many as 112,000 homes. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/NPPA_Becherer_Singles_0004.jpg Campaign 2016 Trump GONZALES, LOUISIANA. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center, and running mate Gov. Mike Pence, right, help to unload supplies for flood victims during a tour of the flood damaged area in Gonzales, La., Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. Trump and Pence traveled to flood-ravaged sections of southern Louisiana to survey the damage that killed at least 13 people and displaced thousands more. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/WorldPress_Becherer_Flood_0008.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding Daniel Stover, 17, moves a boat of personal belongings from a friend's flooded home in Sorrento, La. USA, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. The American Red Cross described the flood as "the largest natural disaster to hit the United States since Superstorm Sandy." (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/WorldPress_Becherer_Flood_0005.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, right, reviews a shored up breach in a levee dam that the Louisiana National Guard filled using 362, 4000-lb. sand bags that were put in place with a helicopter near Gueydan, La. USA, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. "Though we are bringing to bear all the FEMA relief we can and what's allowed by statute, it's not going to be enough to make people whole, and that's unfortunate," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/WorldPress_Becherer_Flood_0006.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding Robert Miller, 66, prays during service at the South Walker Baptist Church in Walker, La. USA, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016. Miller had six family members in his home when the flood struck and helped them flee the home while he stayed behind to care for his dogs. Miller wounded his left wrist with a saw while trying to clean up the flood damage. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/WorldPress_Becherer_Flood_0007.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding Mailbox posts are seen just above flood water in Prairieville, La. USA, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. At least 40,000 homes were damaged in the historic Louisiana floods, according to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/WorldPress_Becherer_Flood_0010.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding Debris from gutted homes can be seen in front of homes in this areal view of Baton Rouge, La. USA, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. President Obama signed a Louisiana disaster declaration on Aug. 14, making federal disaster funding available. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/WorldPress_Becherer_Flood_0009.jpg Historic Louisiana Flooding David Key looks at water out of his master bedroom windows in his flooded home in Prairieville, La. USA, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. Key, an insurance adjuster, fled his home as the flood water was rising with his wife and three children and returned Tuesday to assess the damage. Mike Steele, spokesman for the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said 102,000 people have registered for federal aid. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://maxbecherer.com/new-orleans 2026-06-10 monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/NOchasesecondline.jpg The Big 6 Brass Band leads a second line past Dooky Chase restaurant to celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary New Orleans chef Leah Chase in New Orleans, La. Monday, June 3, 2019. The Big 6 Brass Band leads a second line past Dooky Chase restaurant to celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary New Orleans chef Leah Chase in New Orleans, La. Monday, June 3, 2019. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/NOdrjohnsecondline0608190009.jpg NO.drjohnsecondline.060819.0009.JPG Trumpeter James Andrews leads a second line for Malcolm "Dr. John" Rebennack, who died Thursday at age 77, as it pauses in front of a mural of Allen Toussaint on Claiborne Ave. in the Treme in New Orleans, La. Friday, June 7, 2019. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/NOchasesecondline0604190021.jpg NO.chasesecondline.060419.0021.JPG The Big 6 Brass Band leads a second line past Dooky Chase restaurant to celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary New Orleans chef Leah Chase in New Orleans, La. Monday, June 3, 2019. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/NOchasesecondline0604190012.jpg NO.chasesecondline.060419.0012.JPG The Big 6 Brass Band leads a second line past Dooky Chase restaurant to celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary New Orleans chef Leah Chase in New Orleans, La. Monday, June 3, 2019. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/NObartholomewfuneral0709190001.jpg NO.bartholomewfuneral.070919.0001.JPG Deacon John Moore touches his friend for the last time during the viewing of Dave Bartholomew at St. Gabriel the Archangel Church in New Orleans, La. Monday, July 8, 2019. The life of David Bartholomew, a trumpeter, bandleader, producer, arranger, composer and star-maker of Fats Domino, Lloyd Price and many other New Orleans talents, was celebrated with prayers, tributes, brass bands and dancing. He died at 100 years of age on June 23. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/Flambo.jpg A flambeaux leads The Knights of Babylon as they roll on the Uptown parade route with 12 Lieutenants on horseback, and 26 floats with 305 knights on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. A flambeaux leads The Knights of Babylon as they roll on the Uptown parade route with 12 Lieutenants on horseback, and 26 floats with 305 knights on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/NOskullbones0306190005.jpg NO.skullbones.030619.0005.JPG A member of the North Side Skull and Bones Gang emerges from a home after waking up its residents in Treme on Mardi Gras morning in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, March 5, 2019. The gang is celebrating its 200th year. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/NOcentralcityindians021418.jpg Spyboy Samual Fields of the Uptown Warriors holds a SKS, a semi-automatic carbine, with an extended bayonet as he looks for other Indians to challenge with tribal dances and chants in Central City on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. Mardi Gras Indian tribes who wear hand-made one of a kind costumes meet other tribes and perform ritual dances and chants all over the city on Mardi Gras Day. Spyboy Samual Fields of the Uptown Warriors holds a SKS, a semi-automatic carbine, with an extended bayonet as he looks for other Indians to challenge with tribal dances and chants in Central City on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. Mardi Gras Indian tribes who wear hand-made one of a kind costumes meet other tribes and perform ritual dances and chants all over the city on Mardi Gras Day. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/noknightofchaos020920180005.jpg no.knightofchaos.02092018.0005.JPG The Knights of Chaos roll on the Uptown route with a 16-float parade of 225 men throwing cards, cups and doubloons to parade-goers in New Orleans, La., on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/nobabylon020920180006.jpg no.babylon.02092018.0006.JPG Drew Edwards, age 3, looks for beads as The Knights of Babylon roll on the Uptown parade route with 12 Lieutenants on horseback, and 26 floats with 305 knights on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/KATRINA-013.jpg Katrina Changing City NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Marquell Williams, age 12, in pink at left, and other neighborhood kids who spend their time at the Running Bear Boxing club watch as Eric Patterson, age 28, washes newborn pit bull puppies that he has bred to sell in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. The boxing club is run by a resident of the Lower 9th Ward to keep kids out of trouble. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/07122015_MISSUSAWIN__Becherer_009.jpg Miss Oklahoma Wins Miss USA BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. Miss Oklahoma reacts as she wins the 2015 Miss USA contest at The Baton Rouge River Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The pageant is especially controversial this year after co-owner of Miss Universe, Donald Trump, made disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants. (Max Becherer/Polaris Images) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/06282015_Marriage__Becherer_003.jpg First Gay Couple to Legally Wed NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Earl Benjamin, left, and Michael Robinson, show their marriage certificate and kiss in the New Orleans Parish Civil District Court building after becoming the first legally gay couple to wed in New Orleans, Louisiana. Robinson and Benjamin had been together for almost 14 years before exchanging vows in the civil ceremony. (Max Becherer/Polaris) https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/KATRINA-018.jpg Katrina Changing City NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Beer holding visitors enjoy the setting sun on Jackson Square at the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015. Katrina seemed like the final blow to a city long in decline, suffering from urban crime, white flight, the vagaries of the energy market and gross mismanagement. Roughly 80 percent of the city was under water. Hundreds of people drowned inside their homes, their bodies floating in the muck. Hospitals and police were overwhelmed. The city emptied.Now, as people describe the city’s resurgence, they reach for metaphors that verge on the Biblical: a resurrection, an economic and cultural renaissance, a rebirth. 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