A casualty of war

Shantih (peace) to Tim Hetherington, who was killed on Wednesday along with another photographer in the besieged Libyan city of Misurata. Mr. Hetherington was the director of the excellent Afghan documentary Restrepo. That movie was a joint project between him and Sebastian Junger, who wrote of him: "working with Tim was like climbing into a little sports car and driving around really, really fast." Pity it had to crash!

Mr. Junger's contribution to their joint legacy was a superlative book with a simple and eloquent title: War. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford