John was busy playing war tourist, and as any journalist who has covered a conflict will tell you, war tourists are some of the lower forms of life one can encounter. Think pornographer with a flack jacket. John shouldn't have been walking inside the crime scene. The cops treated him better than they should have. JDII
John seems to have experienced the same thing. His memories are overlayed onto the photos, making them for him part of a larger reality. But to a viewer, they are no different from what we have seen from the other news media. They just show broken metal. You can get the same thing at the local junkyard.
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