Camp Pendleton Wounded Warrior Battalion Sculpture Unveiled

Iraq War sculpture unveiled at Camp Pendleton
Craig Herrera, City News Service
Nov 12, 2014

CAMP PENDLETON - A monument dedicated to wounded warriors was unveiled Wednesday in a ceremony at the Wounded Warrior Battalion (West) complex at Camp Pendleton.

The sculpture is based on a photograph of two lance corporals carrying an injured sergeant out of a house a decade ago in Fallujah, Iraq. On the right is Chris Marquez.

"We went across, I guess you could call it, like a kill zone, and one by one we pulled out the people in the room and one of them happened to be Sgt. Maj. Kasal and that's how the picture was taken," he said.

That photo has been replicated as a life-sized monument called "No Man Left Behind."

"It's a terrifying picture of somebody who almost died," said Lucian Read, a freelance photographer who snapped the photo. "But they respond of course to the heroism of it and the moment of it, so I've always tried to support their interpretation of it."

Artist John Phelps made the sculpture.
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