It's a tough, but heartwarming story...with a picture of John Gebhardt in IraqJohn Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing.He is a real Star of the war, and represents what the Western world is trying to do.This, my friends, is worth sharing with the WORLD! Go for it!!You'll never see things like this in the news. Please keep this going. Nothing will happen if you don't, but the public needs to see pictures like this and needs to realize that we're making a difference. Even if it is just one little girl at a time.
And for you cynics, this is from hoaxslayer, a website dedicated to discovering internet scams:
Some photographs tell a story all by themselves. This moving, and somehow peaceful, photograph of a sleeping soldier cradling an injured child is certainly one of them. And, for once, the textual explanation that accompanies the photograph contains accurate information.The photograph shows Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt with an injured Iraqi child during a deployment to Balad Air Base in Iraq during October 2006.