Weapons Platoon « Why are you a Marine ? » by Stephen Dupont

“I choose to take a simple and intimate path in this project and simply asked all the Marines in the platoon to write their answers to the question ‘Why are you a Marine?’ in a small journal that I kept while I was embedded with them. While in the field I took the Polaroids of each Marine and gave them the positive as a reciprocal gesture for their participation and honesty and later back in Sydney printed from the negative.”