Spc. Jason Kazarick


A white dove flies over friends and family members of Spc. Jason Kazarick's at his funeral on Friday afternoon at the Our Lady of Joy Catholic Church in Plum. Kazarick, the Plum/Oakmont man was killed in Iraq.

Photograph by Justin Merriman  

3 comments:

Dean Beattie April 20, 2008 at 8:34 PM  

The one thing about this image that is so striking is the people in the background, their expressions and emotion bring this home.

Really nice, man

Michael Henninger April 21, 2008 at 12:43 PM  

Hey-

This is a great frame. Everything about it works for me...the composition, the moment with the dove, the green shrubs....

buff April 21, 2008 at 6:57 PM  

I agree with MH, everything works! You really got it!

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Justin Merriman, an award-winning photojournalist with the Tribune-Review, has spent more than a decade traveling the world to cover politics, wars, natural disasters and civil unrest. His work has appeared in leading national and international publications and he has received numerous top journalism awards. After covering the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – including the crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville – Merriman committed to chronicling the U.S. military and its War on Terror. He has followed this story across the US and into the war zones of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. He also has covered life in Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 2002, India’s efforts to eradicate polio, the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and most recently, Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Cuba in 2012. In 2011, Merriman was honored with the top photography award from the Military Reporters and Editors Assoc. for his work in Iraq & Haiti. Merriman graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in 2000 with a degree in English Writing. In 2009, the university awarded him its prestigious Alumnus of Distinction award. Merriman lives in Oakmont with his fiancé, Stephanie Strasburg.

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