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That is so true. There is so much satisfaction, happiness, and love in that smile. I could look at it all day. Families of our armed forces - you put that smile on the little girl's face, by supporting your family members who serve.

I posted the photo, the link to the original story, and the complete text of the Star Spangled Banner on all my college course websites. (I told the students of two 5 week courses that the war would be over before the course was. And it was over.)

Note how appropriate the last three (but almost unknown) verses of the National Anthem are:

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/ssb.html