An Iconic Image from the Invasion of Iraq Wasn’t What It Seemed

“I saw this for what it was — this wasn’t Iwo Jima,” Gary Knight said. “It was probably the most trivial thing I had seen in five weeks. And I recognized what the press, the live TV cameras who had been starved of a story, were making of it. But I thought to myself, I’m not going to flatter this by making it into something that I know it isn’t.”