welcome April 21, 2003 Issue

Love on the front lines

Kim Shippey

A March 29 Reuters photograph, showing a US medic cradling a little Iraqi girl in his arms after her mother had been killed by cross-fire on the front line near Rifa, has affected millions of newspaper readers.

Few of us will ever know what that soldier was really feeling at the time. We're unlikely to know what he did next or what happened to the child. It would be nice to be reassured that all is well with both of them.

One reader wrote to The New York Times: "The look on the [medic's] face and the utter helplessness of the Iraqi child speak volumes."

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