We must never forget the cost of this war.

Do you remember this? It happened almost a year ago.

These people were just rying to get home and had the misfortune to live in the place that America had decided to "liberate". We managed to liberate a few of these people from their lives.

From the sidewalk I could see into the bullet-mottled windshield more clearly. The driver of the car, a man, was penetrated by so many bullets that his skull had collapsed, leaving his body grotesquely disfigured. A woman also lay dead in the front, still covered in her Muslim clothing and harder to see.

Meanwhile, the children continued to wail and scream, huddled against a wall, sandwiched between soldiers either binding their wounds or trying to comfort them. The Army's translator later told me that this was a Turkoman family and that the teenaged girl kept shouting, "Why did they shoot us? We have no weapons! We were just going home!"

I remembered how angry I was when I first saw these pictures. I am embarrassed to say that I had almost forgotten the incident. None of us should ever be allowed to forget the human cost of this conflict. Bullets and missiles kill! They kill human beings. Just like us.