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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See post #19...
American men at their best. Thanks for the pic.
The author who took the pic, Michael Yon, was just interviewed on FoxNews. He has a blog report at:
http://www.iacsp.com/myon.html
also here:
http://www.michaelyon.blogspot.com/
[Mod yesterday pulled a post and said the image was a Getty image.]
That photo reminds me of the fireman holding little Bayley Almon after the Oklahoma bombing...... It is the absolute expression of compasion that strikes me. He is holding her so tenderly like she is his own child. Lets pray for him and all the troops over there and for the all Iraqi people who want peace.
I saw one photo in Time right after the start of the war.
A wounded Iraqi was being treated by US Medic. He was applying a pressure bandage with one hand and using the other hand to tear open another one he had between his teeth.
The Iraqi soldier had his head in the lap of a fellow Iraqi soldier who was obviously trying to support and comfort his comrade.
Standing above the Iraqis were other American soldiers. One had his hand pressed to a wound on his own arm and was bleeding from his face.
I was touched by the photo at the compassion shown by the soldiers and the medic. The medic was treating an enemy soldier instead of his own man because the enemy was obviously more severely wounded.
It is this compassion that makes us better than the insurgents.
I think it IS that one.....but did the 25th Division move units from Hawaii to Ft. Lewis, Washington? Never mind....they're the Stryker Bde of the 25th, stationed at Ft. Lewis.
He said that the murderers deliberately targeted the troops when children were present.
tears and prayers
I was surfing so I can't be sure it was FNC.
Somebody tell me why the Iraqis don't have a more secure way for recruits to enlist? They shouldn't keep lining up by the hundreds to sign up for police and security jobs when they were just killed by the hundreds doing that very same thing about a month ago. Why haven't they come up with a way to enlist without exposing themselves to suicide bombers?
Your husband has a better heart than the majority of the pacifists around the world - a better heart than the majority of the anti-war, anti-military crowd around the world, and an infinitely better heart than the bastards that killed that child.
I would trust the heart and soul of an Infantryman, long before I would that of almost anyone else. God Bless You, Mrs. Bieger. We have a better world because of men like your husband.
Of course, what better way to send a message to the other children?
Religion of peace
Sick, sik, sick
Throughout my military career and since my rejoining the civilian world I have often been struck by the juxtaposition of a hardened combat soldier showing extreem compasion towards others when the world least expects it. It brings tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat everytime, and everytime it makes me think of the military code of conduct. This was drilled into us when we were in basic training to fall back on if we were ever taken prisoner by the enemy, but the first and last paragraphs always meant more to me that that.
I am an American, fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.
I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.
The angle of the little gir's head is not quite right for him to be giving her rescue breathing (head back, jaw jutted). I think when this picture was taken, the girl was already dead and the soldier knew it. He's weeping.
Oh my.....I'm sad, proud and angry at the same time. I'm sad this child is dead, I'm proud of that soldier, and I'm angry at the animals who did this!
LOL didn't mean to be impatient. Thanks for posting the photo.
Now, that's better.
Oh. Okay. That explains why he wasn't giving rescue breathing- she was NOT dead at the time. This has got to be one of the most stirring pictures I have ever seen.
I think it represents the heart of why we sent our servicemen there in the first place.
Nah. Gotta be the oil, right? (sarcasm off).
To think that most Democrats and Liberals support the thugs and Islamic Terrorists that murdered that child...
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