Jeremy M. Lange

Projects: - The War at Home (in progress): - Coming and Going

To the service men and women, and their families, who watch loved ones walk out and back into their lives.

Mike Swygert and his wife Sgt. Patricia Swygert say goodbye as Patricia prepares to ship out with the North Carolina National Guard's 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, which has 4000 soldiers deploying to Iraq. The Swygert's were married on Nov. 28, 2008.
   
April Ponce De Leon, 22, a Marine corporal on active duty based at Camp Lejune in Jacksonville, NC. She is being deployed to Iraq in 2 weeks. After previously supporting the humanitarian aspect of the war, she now calls it an "occupation" and no longer supports the war effort.
   
Kristian Hofeller, a U.S. Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, drives through Brooklyn in January 2006. Hofeller has since returned to the Middle East as a private contractor after failing to get a job in the US.
     
  
Members of the 30th Brigade Heavy Combat Team of the North Carolina National Guard play cards as the wait to board a plane for Iraq.
   
A Marine sleeps at the Wounded Warrior Battalion at Camp LeJeune.Marines wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan report to the battalion for rehab after being discharged from the hospital. Many are on heavy medications due to their injuries and spend much of the time sleeping.
   
Homecoming ceremony for the 1st and 2nd Brigade Combat Teams of the 82nd Airborne after serving 15 months in Iraq, Ft. Bragg, NC.
     
  
Welcome home posters, Jacksonville, NC, 2007.
   
Homecoming ceremony for the 1st and 2nd Brigade Combat Teams of the 82nd Airborne after serving 15 months in Iraq, Ft. Bragg, NC.
   
A target used by soldiers who recently returned from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, Long Island, NY.
     
  
Homecoming ceremony for the 1st and 2nd Brigade Combat Teams of the 82nd Airborne after serving 15 months in Iraq, Ft. Bragg, NC.
   
Members of the 30th Brigade Heavy Combat Team of the North Carolina National Guard deploy to Iraq.