It's Just NOT fair!!

That is so sad. I chose the picture of the pregnant women leaning on the coffin. The fact that Heisler doesn’t even show her face is brilliant because without seeing her face you can still feel the same sorrow, anguish, and compassion that the women herself is feeling. You can tell by the way her head is tilted downward and her hands are touching her unborn son. It is almost as if she is trying to tell her deceased husband “listen to the baby’s heart beat, look what and who you are leaving behind.” If you look closely you can tell that Heisler blurred out the soldier in the back ground, which is considerate of the photographer to keep the main focus on the widowed soon to be mother. For once the attention can be given to the real victims of this war.

The argument that I would entertain would be that it is not fair that troops leave their pregnant wives with a colossal risk of them losing their lives and leaving an unborn child behind. It is just not fair. Who will provide for the pregnant widow in the photo? Who will take care of these widowed wives awaiting their deceased husband’s arrival? I am using the pathos approach so I can touch the people’s hearts. I want people to really comprehend or really genuinely feel for these women. Their husbands are/were attempting to pursue “patriotic” acts and as a result lost their lives, but what does that leave for these deceased soldiers’ families?