The Best Photos from TIME 2010

A Soldier's Loved Ones
Photographed by Peter van Agtmael / Magnum for TIME
Rosie Ricketts, the widow of Staff Sergeant William "Seth" Ricketts, who was killed in an ambush on Feb. 27 in western Afghanistan, wakes her son Aiden before a viewing of her late husband's body at a funeral home in Corinth, Miss.

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