COPQ: Most important costs …..

Ricochet, (Washington Post)…Warren Zinn, July 13, 2008
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The e-mail was a punch in the gut: “the soldier you made famous — killed himself last Saturday — thought you should know.”

But as I stared at his image on my wall, I couldn’t dodge the question: Did this photo have anything to do with his death? News reports said he hated the celebrity that came with the picture. How much, I wondered, did that moment — just 1/250th of a second when three lives intersected on a river bank in Iraq — contribute to the burdens he’d brought home with him? If I’d never taken his picture, would he have ended up as he did? Would he still have been a casualty of war?

Cost of Power Quality (COPQ):  “Most important costs are unknown and unknowable.”