I don't have cable, so my access to war footage is limited to normal news broadcasts. I suspect that the imagery that will stay with me the longest will be footage taken by an embedded journalist and cameraperson travelling though baghdad at night in a vehicle with a number of soldiers (I have not been able to find a link to this footage, although I'm pretty sure I saw it on ABC). Some of the soldiers appeared concerned about how close civilian cars were coming up behind the truck, and were gesturing and calling for them to keep back. Perhaps the gestures were visible in the headlights, but I suspect the shouts were not (and in any case were in english). One car came closer, which resulted in more energetic waving away from the soldiers. Closer still and the soldiers opened fire. The bullets hitting the car sounded like hail. The car accelerated and swerved to the side, at no time were we able to see those inside. The journalist reported that all three occupants were killed. The soldiers the began shooting off to the side where they believed they had heard/seen shots. Soldiers later interviewed reported that the tracers were not the colour used by US troops, however later the report played back the footage and the journalist expressed the view that it was of the same colour.

Why remember? Because the whole incident seemed so casual, and so much linked to our normal lives. These people were doing something so mundane and every-day - driving down a highway, and for that they died. The soldiers were, for that road trip, placed (should we say embedded?) into another community's everyday activities while at the same time still fighting a war, and for that they carry with them the memory of the loss of three lives.