Posted on 05/05/2005 6:57:28 AM PDT by Pokey78
On a day of carnage, it was an intimate image: a soldier clutching a child in his arms.
When Amy Bieger, mother of three boys, wife of an infantryman in Iraq, saw the picture on the Internet on Tuesday night, she stared at the little feet dangling in the nook of the man's arm, at the soldier's helmeted head pressed to the child's face. She stared and tears welled up.
"I said 'Oh my God, it is one of our soldiers,'" Bieger, 34, said yesterday from her home outside the Fort Lewis, Wash., Army post. "Then I stared at the [name] patch. I made out the rank and then the last four letters of the name and I knew it was my husband."
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So where's the picture?
This is a remarkable and touching photograph. I think it summarizes quite well American intentions in Iraq. We are there to help build freedom as well as destroy tyranny.
God bless America.
How much of this have any of you seen from the MSM?
I'll never understand Islam, which at it's most debased and cultish, has no problem slaughtering it's own people in God's name.
Front page of "The Washington Post(above the fold)" yesterday. I was stunned that the pic was placed there. But then, it is a superb photo. It'll tear your heart out as well as generate a great deal of pride in our armed forces.
It's also the poster picture for why we're fighting the sorts of bastards who kill little kids.
How much of this have any of you seen from the MSM?
Right On! How Vile of the Left Media! America..even in War is a Moral and compassionate Nation...this comes from our Judeao/Christian values. it is not supprising that the Scum of the Media will not show this Photo. They can't let any Pictures of an American soldier showing compassion get out. Someone might see the whole story.
Quite correct. Dirty SOBs. Grown men who willingly kill children will most assuredly rot in Hell.
This is the first I am hearing of the story.
Shades of the OKC aftermath...
This photo brought tears to my eyes yesterday morning. There was something very poignant about those tiny feet and the soldiers arms around the child.
Might be this one.
I hope that Amy knows how proud we are of her husband! ...and of her.
I'd like to know more about the story behind the picture.
Not the MSM,but John Scott just had the embed writer on his show that took the photo. He said he is a writer,but he does take pictures to go along with his stories. He was very emotional and so was John Scott. It will get more coverage eventually,but the MSM is always slow on the uptake when it shows soldiers to be compassionate and doing a wonderful job with the children of Iraq,while they are fighting the terrorists.
Mosul
Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn't make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.
The soldiers went back to that neighborhood the next day to ask what they could do. The people were very warming and welcomed us into their homes, and many kids were actually running up to say hello and to ask soldiers to shake hands.
Eventually, some insurgents must have realized we were back and started shooting at us. The American soldiers and Iraqi police started engaging the enemy and there was a running gun battle. I saw at least one IP who was shot, but he looked okay and actually smiled at me despite the big bullet hole in his leg. I smiled back.
One thing seems certain; the people in that neighborhood share our feelings about the terrorists. We are going to go back there, and if any terrorists come out, the soldiers hope to find them. Everybody is still very angry that the insurgents attacked us when the kids were around. Their day will come.
Michael Yon
Same here, although I'm not surprised.
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