The newspaper photograph shows a father helping his injured soldier son as he learns to use his prosthetic legs at Walter Reed Hospital. The young man, only 24, lost his legs and his left arm when a roadside bomb in Iraq hit his Humvee. The photograph, which shows a stocky father steadying his son as he tries to stand and walk with his prosthetic legs, breaks your heart as you try to put yourself in the position of the young soldier as he so trustingly relies on his dad to brace him. The photograph captures all the love an devotion a parent feels toward his child and all the trust a child can give a parent. And you say a prayer for the young man with all his hard life ahead of him. And you wonder where he will get the courage to continue living and see himself through this terrible time as he embarks on this new stage of his life. And you wonder whether you would have the strength and determination to get through this period yourself if you were in his place. And you ask God with all your heart to let this terrible war be over and to bring our children safely home to America, and you beg God for peace to come to that war-torn nation. And you wonder what lies ahead.
The newspaper photograph tears you up and you question the price that people pay when they are called to war. No life is worth losing.

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