Update: I first posted this photo in January of 2008. Today I found the context, including this comment by the photographer:
Context: 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.Photo credit: Michael Yon.
Addendum: There is a poll* at the top of the right sidebar in which you can express an opinion as to whether Major Bieger should or should not be described as a victim of war (see comment thread).
*On the question "Is Major Bieger a "victim" of the war?" the final tally showed 75 votes "yes," 24 votes "no," and two "other." I suspect the differences between the yes and no votes are as much a matter of semantics as of sentiment.
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