The original caption chose to highlight the other figure in this image, a US marine facing away from the corpse in the foreground.
Two of the eight marines face charges of negligent homicide, while others face lesser charges, Marine officials said.
Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, the two marines, face murder charges in the February 2012 shooting of two Indian fishermen who were on a fishing boat in the Arabian Sea, off the southern Indian coast.
Not all marines facing criminal charges receive the same amount of attention, or cash donations.
Italy said Thursday that it would return to India two marines facing murder charges in the shooting deaths of two Indian fishermen.
In his decision to dismiss charges, Lt. Gen. James Mattis, the commanding general with jurisdiction in the case, said he was sympathetic to the challenges marines faced in Iraq.
That same Sunday, marines faced heavy fighting that left about a dozen dead in combat, and perhaps more killed by fire.
In Nasiriya, about 230 miles south of Baghdad, marines faced another day of gun battles with irregular forces mounted in armored personnel carriers with rocket launchers and antiaircraft systems.
The developments in the Finmeccanica case come at a time when New Delhi and Rome are entangled in a diplomatic dispute after Italy's refusal this week to return two Italian marines facing trial in India for the killing of two fishermen off the southwest Indian coast last year.
Since McKinley returned to the United States in April, the vision of the dead marine's face has sat in her mind like an elephant blocking the road.
A princess who fled Bahrain with fake documents to marry an American marine must face charges of illegally entering the United States, an immigration judge said today.
