“First thing I do in the morning is I go to the cemetery. Cry a little bit. . . some tears. . .
I don’t know if dead people can listen. But sometime when I feel desperate, that’s the only thing that, that I can do that make me feels better.”

Luis Moreno’s brother was killed during the Iraq War. In 2004, he joined four other families who lost loved ones in the war to discuss their bereavement for a new documentary by the online magazine Slate. Never Coming Home; captures the disbelief, panic and pain the families felt when uniformed officers knocked on their front doors to deliver news no one ever wants to hear.

Audio producer Zachary Barr, photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein and producer Brian Storm constructed the documentary using the power of still imagery and spoken work to give the families the artistic platform to express their grief. They are still travelling the country documenting new families.

But, their pain is not unique. According to Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, 2,497 families have lost loved ones in the war, as of today.