Thank you to
Mr. Pat Patey and
Mr. Neil Phillips of the Salvation Army for their support.

The Salvation Army will be the recipient of all food donations from the "Ruck It Up" event.

Strength and Compassion
This picture was taken by Michael Yon
02 May 2005 and was selected as Time Magazine's top photo of 2005.

Mosul

Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn’t make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.

Michael has been an embedded journalist with Soldiers and Marines for several years and brings a truthful view on the war back to us at home.

Thank you Michael for everything you do.
Keep up the outstanding work!

Michael Yon