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."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
>>>>Yes, I can do that photo. Do you have a passage you would prefer or want me to find one?
I would not be good at picking a passage. I can't look at that photo without crying. And I want it to be a positive to reflect hope. Maybe someone like freeper The Mayor or Xzins can be pinged if we need to brain storm. Or maybe we can post some passages and let freepers vote.
>>>Who is Luz Cintron?
He is a freeper here he customized those photos I use at my site: http://goexcelglobal.com/NJ_DefenseForce under Voices Unheard. He also contributed a passage:
9/11 made this cause both of our destinies, the people oppressed by regimes and the people of the US are bound together. We must win together to win this one. In a way we have become related by blood. Their freedom and our homeland security have been watered by the blood of those willing. It is no coincidence the name of the coalition is The Coalition Of The Willing. It is costing us the lives of our children that is a mighty bond. Luz C. Cintrón, April 2003
Darn thing is, I can't remember his screen name.
Freeper Ernie De Bella contributed to the site too.
My son suggests I aim my vehicles instead of driving them...Looks like we're in the same boat!
...sad photo.
Wow, neat people you talk about in that post and I don't know any of them. Thank you for the info!
I like the layout! It is hard to read the letters though.
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!
I am not here - I'm really working - but I HAD to say Lady - I KNEW you do it right and beautiful!! *HUGS!!!*
The letters are hard to read? Shoot, must be my monitor.
You can see the words on your monitor? What does it say?
Resolution on monitors are always a bit different.
What does it say?
Good news bump. Good except for the poor little girl killed by Jihadist psycho killers
No time for that right now.
I see them perfectly...
"In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. Matthew Ch 11, v 18"
So sorry about the baby. Had tears in my eyes when I saw the picture.
Proud of our guy. It's a movie definition, but I like it, especially since the line was said by John Wayne.
"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
Calpernia can't read it and I messed up the layers working too late last night, so it would take longer than I have right now to fix - maybe later today or this evening.
Lady - you truly have a gift.
Oh that is Nice!
Great job Lady Jag!
Tonk, come look at what Lady Jag did! I'm going to put it up on my site. I think it would be great for the Canteen splash thread too!
Lady Jag, do you want credit with your real name or your freeper nick?
Yes, I'm concerned with resolution because I was recently given an amazingly advanced monitor and forget its resolution is exceptional. I NEED people to tell me with something doesn't look right on their computer!!
Bless you! Thank you. I'm jumping around with my posts - it's because I'm not supposed to be here, either. Shhh!
Thank you, and part of my gift is you!
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