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Subscribe to RSSI've seen a lot of pictures of funerals at Arlington cemetery, but this one is simple and heartbreaking. You don't need to see more than the soldiers hands with the folded flag to know exactly where they are and what is happening. It didn't make the final cut, but you can see what did here.
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A daughter of Lt. Col. Robert Baldwin, of Eliza, Ill., looks on as a flag is presented during a burial service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Lt. Col. Baldwin was killed in Afghanistan.
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All you have to do is look into this poor child's eyes and realize that no comment is needed. Words could not properly put into perspective the pain that you see.
"Didn't make the cut"....How very sad. Just keep hiding these photos of wars casualties, be they returning heroes in coffins, or grieving families, or warriors without limbs. Let's keep pretending they don't exist so that the citizens get upset. How sad.
Thank you to the family, all families, who share in this suffering. You are not alone.
Silence in contemplation, and my prayer for this child her family and dad.
Skeeter, fortunately when Phaedra said it "didn't make the cut" she means only for the final "Year in Pictures" slideshow, which is a tight voting process and did feature some other images of our war veterans. You can see the final edit for Year in Pictures here. This photo was prominently featured in The Week in Pictures when it first came to us in October, you can view that week's slideshow here.