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  • Boy from iconic wartime photo pays it forward at Christmas

    12/21/2013 2:50:58 PM PST · by GrootheWanderer · 12 replies
    NBC News ^ | Dec. 20, 2013 | Wonbo Woo, Kate Snow and Tracy Connor
    It's one of the most powerful pictures from the Iraq war: an 8-year-old, his lip trembling, is handed a folded flag at his father's funeral. The iconic image inspired a family friend - someone the young Christian Golczynski had never met - to send him a present and, later, to launch a foundation that helps hundreds of kids just like him. Every year, A Soldier’s Child sends children of fallen soldiers gifts on their birthday. Christian's father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marcus Golczynski, was killed in Iraq in 2007, so Christian was the first recipient. Now, there are 1,200 in 46...
  • The Boy Behind an Iconic Photo

    05/25/2009 8:18:33 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 97 replies · 4,566+ views
    ABCNews ^ | 5-4-07
    Heather Golczynski and her 8-year-old son Christian hold tightly to the memory of Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski. Choking back tears, Christian Golczynski accepted the flag from his father's casket. Photographer Aaron Thompson described this moment as "the most emotionally moving event I may have ever witnessed and may ever witness in my life." *snip* Just days before he left for his second tour, Marc sent a letter to his family that would be his epitaph. "Due to our deep desire to finish the job we started, we fight and sometimes die so that our families don't have to....