Staff photographer Amanda Lucier documents the home front in the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, sharing milestones in the lives of those left behind in Hampton Roads. While You Were Gone

For six months, Pilot photographer Preston Gannaway traveled the state, capturing images of how the war is being kept alive and the words of those who feel compelled to do so. The Civil War, an Enduring Conflict

As the nation marks the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the number of survivors is dwindling. Hampton Roads veterans who witnessed the attack talk about the "date which will live in infamy." The Last Witnesses

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti

The Operation Blessing truck groaned up a steep hill into a shanty town. Haitians carrying plastic buckets hurried out of tarp and tin shacks and surrounded the dusty truck as it hissed to a stop.

Bill Horan was watching the delivery on this late September day. He rattled off the truck’s superior qualities.

I didn't begin my journey with Eric Middleton as a journalist.
A friend of my boss had asked a favor - could he find a photographer to take a family portrait for a career Navy guy who'd been diagnosed with cancer?
My boss asked me.
Sure, I said. It felt like the right thing to do.
I had no way of knowing where it would lead.

At a combat hospital in the heart of Taliban country, doctors and nurses from Portsmouth Naval Medical Center fight to save the war's worst casualties. A Chance in Hell

TRY THIS AT HOME: Photographer Preston Gannaway offers these tips to anyone wanting to merge an old photo with its current-day surroundings:
 
Old black-and-white photos work best because they contrast nicely with the color of the new image.
 

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