Black Friday
While reading various post and news stories over the Thanksgiving holidays all one seemed to find was news of the shopping madness of Black Friday.
Then I came across this photo.
Source of the original photo: http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/77981368.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1936ED6F4FE2F3F40DC1C97CCB9C86F3152284831B75F48EF45
The little girl is the daughter of a soldier, Staff Sgt. John Linde that was killed in action early in November in Tal Al-Dahab, Iraq. He and three of his friends and co-troops were also killed that day. One of them an Army Medic on her third tour to Iraq, she left behind a husband and three sons.
Being a dad and a grandpa of a little girl about the same age, of course my heart went out to this little girl and her family. Dry eyes are hard to maintain here.
Don't have much to say about it other than while all the media was covering our shopping madness, this little girl was attending her father's burial at Arlington National Cemetery on November 23, 2007, other wise know as Black Friday. This date will always be the blackest Friday in her heart.
May His Peace be with her and the many other fatherless and motherless children this war is creating. Both American and Iraqi.
Labels: black friday, fatherless motherless children, war killed
posted by RandyT @ 8:51 PM
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2 Comments:
That's horrible
True, but most of us just go about life and never consider the human cost of war. We seem to forget the children do not volunteer and they in the end pay the most.
My experience has been in the Navy. On the mornings of deployment big tough guys will be reduced to tears as their children hug them around a leg and refuse to let their dads (moms) go. Will break your hear, I can only imagine the griff these little children go through that have to attend at burial service for their Dads and/or Moms at this young an age. Old enough to know what is going on, but too young to deal with the brokent heart.
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