Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thank you George, Thank you Dick, Thank you Barry
For starting this and never stopping.
From McClatchy:
From McClatchy:
In the last video Elizabeth Woods took of her husband before he was killed in Afghanistan, Brian tries to reassure her that he will be all right, that his six months at war will pass quickly and soon they will be together again.And Fuck You and Petraeus too for thinking we need to continue this for years to come.
"It's hard for me, too," he says. "I'm going to miss you a lot."...
Elizabeth filmed the video, one last memory of Brian, just in case.
Elizabeth has watched the video so often, as many as eight times in a single day, that she no longer cries when she sees Brian's face and hears his voice. She can recite what each of them said, as if she were reciting dialogue from a movie.
She has watched the video so many times that their daughter, Ella, now 20 months old, recognizes her father's face on the computer screen.
"Dada!" Ella cries out as the video plays. She presses her body into Elizabeth's legs, a little girl's unspoken way of asking to be picked up so she can watch, too.
When Elizabeth looks at Ella, she sees Brian. Ella has her father's full cheeks, the same earnest puppy-dog look about her eyes. When she doesn't get her way, she squinches up her nose and sticks out her lower lip the way Brian did.
Ella is too young to understand that "Dada" is not a face on a computer screen.
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