Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros stands in front of a burning building on April 18, 2011, in Misrata, Libya. Hondros, who was on assignment in Misrata, was killed on April 20, 2011, by a rocket-propelled grenade. #

Early-morning light hits the smoke and wreckage of the World Trade Center on September 13, 2001, in New York City, two days after the Twin Towers were destroyed when hit by two hijacked passenger jets. #

Joseph Duo, a Liberian government commander, exults after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridge on July 20, 2003, in Monrovia, Liberia. This became one of Hondros's most well-known photos, and an iconic image of the Liberian Civil War. Later Hondros returned to Liberia and reconnected with Duo, who was struggling after the war. Hondros arranged to pay for Duo to return to school and finish his education. #

Chris Hondros working in Liberia in 2003. At left is Q. Sakamaki, who still works as a photographer based out of New York, and at right is the Swedish reporter Martin Adler, who was later killed while covering events in Mogadishu in 2006. #

In Safwan, Iraq, U.S. Marine Major Bull Gurfein pulls down a poster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on March 21, 2003. Chaos reigned in southern Iraq as coalition troops continued their offensive to remove Iraq's leader from power. #

Journalists, U.S. troops, and Iraqi police run for cover during a firefight with insurgents in Tal Afar, Iraq, on January 16, 2005. A routine patrol in the insurgent stronghold turned into an hour-long running gun battle on January 16, with a combined U.S. and Iraqi police force battling insurgents across alleys and down boulevards. #

Samar Hassan screams after her parents were killed by U.S. soldiers with the 25th infantry division in a shooting on January 18, 2005, in Tal Afar, Iraq. The troops fired on the Hassan family car when it unwittingly approached them during a dusk patrol in the tense northern Iraqi town. The parents Hussein and Camila Hassan were killed instantly, and a son, Racan, 11, was seriously wounded in the abdomen. Racan, who lost the use of his legs, was treated later in the U.S. #

In the orange fog of an Iraqi sandstorm, U.S. troops run up and fire warning shots at three Iraqi men in a field who started running from their patrol on May 16, 2008, in Baghdad, Iraq. One of the three men was shot in the leg by the advancing U.S. troops, and started bleeding heavily. He was immediately treated by the U.S. medic traveling with the platoon and transported to the nearest U.S. base for medical care, and is expected to recover. The other two men were arrested by the troops and brought in for investigation. #

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Shawn Spicher, from Hemet, California, is reflected in a mirror at his field base in Fallujah, Iraq, on June 26, 2005. Spicher, 21, with the Third Battalion, Fourth Marines, participated in combat in Fallujah and elsewhere during his two tours in Iraq, and has learned "that this life can be over in an instant." Marines with the Third Battalion, Fourth Marines have had a storied history in Iraq, which includes being the U.S. troops that famously pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, and leading the first assault on Fallujah in April 2004. The 3/4 were on their third tour of duty in Iraq and were scheduled to return home in July of 2005. #

In Paktika Province, Afghanistan, U.S. Army soldiers in the 1/501st of the 25th Infantry Division shield their eyes from the powerful rotor wash of a Chinook cargo helicopter as they are picked up from a mission on October 15, 2009. Soldiers of the 1/501 scoured the Afghan countryside near the Pakistani border on a two-day mission into a tense part of Paktika province, an area that American soldiers had not patrolled for over three years. #

In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following the powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck on January 12, 2010, a man points to the hundreds of bodies piled up outside the morgue and main hospital on January 15, 2010. #

Haitians reach out for relief supplies from the World Food Program on January 20, 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aid started trickling out to Haitians devastated by the previous week's earthquake that ravaged the country. #

A supporter of embattled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak rides a camel through the melee during a clash between pro-Mubarak and anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square on February 2, 2011, in Cairo, Egypt. The day before, President Mubarak announced that he would not run for another term in office, but would stay in power until elections later this year. Thousands of supporters of Egypt's long-time president and opponents of the regime clashed then today in Tahrir Square, throwing rocks and fighting with improvised weapons. #

West of Ajdabiyah, Libya, a rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket barrage toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi on April 14, 2011. Rebels exchanged artillery and rocket fire with loyalist troops west of Ajdabiyah as the conflict engulfing Libya continued. #

Rebel fighters fire at government loyalist troops during street fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata on April 20, 2011, in Misurata, Libya. Rebel forces assaulted the downtown positions of troops loyal to Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi, briefly forcing them back over a key bridge and trapping several in a building that rebel troops then surrounded. Fighting continued between Libyan government forces that surrounded the city and anti-government rebels ensconced there. #

A Libyan rebel fighter runs up a burning stairwell during an effort to flush out government loyalist troops who were firing on them from an upstairs room during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata on April 20, 2011. #

A Libyan rebel fighter fires into a basement during an effort to dislodge some ensconced government loyalist troops during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata, Libya, on April 20, 2011. #