A stunning image of a Brevard County man in the middle of mayhem while fighting for our country in the Middle East wins a prestigious award by TIME magazine.
The picture was selected as one of the Top 10 Photos of 2011 by TIME magazine.
Army Spc. Michael Miller, a 23-year-old from Brevard County, was captured in a moment of chaos as another solider was shot and injured during an ambush attack near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Brittany Miller, the soldier’s wife, said the picture represents every soldier abroad.
“It’s not a picture of my husband,” Miller said. “It’s a picture of what those soldiers go through and what they are experiencing on a daily basis.”
Michael graduated in 2006 from Melbourne High School.
Miller said her husband is typically happy and cheerful, and it’s difficult to see him depicted in such an intense picture.
“That’s honestly a face I’ve never seen from him, and even his family and parents and stuff they say ‘we never seen that look in his eyes. We never seen that intensity and shock,’” Miller said.
With talk of the war ending in Iraq, people like Miller fear the public will forget those who we have already lost and those who are still sacrificing.
“You know, I'm happy soldiers are going home,” Miller said. “Obviously home is where they want to be. There is still a war going on over there. They are pulling troops out of Iraq. That’s fabulous, that’s great, but there are still soldiers deployed. They’re still soldiers away from home. There are still soldiers going through this. We lose soldiers every day and I don’t want people to forget that.”
Michael is scheduled to return home from his first deployment in the summer of 2012.
His wife can’t wait.
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