We’re Still at War: Photo of the Day for October 21, 2011

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The casket of Staff Sgt. Andrew Harvell is embraced by one of his teammates during Harvell’s funeral at Los Angeles National Cemetery Sept. 10, 2011, in California. The casket is adorned with more than 100 combat controller and pararescue metal beret emblems that were hammered in by Harvell’s teammates in one final tribute. Harvell was a combat controller who died Aug. 6, 2011, when the CH-47 Chinook he was traveling in crashed in the Wardak province of Afghanistan. (US Air Force photo/Joe Juarez)