Bob CollinsThere are many pictures, the composition of which we’ve seen so many times, one would expect it would lose its effect. This is the exception:
It’s the family of Sgt. Nicholas Dickhut of Stewartville, who buried him on Tuesday. In a week dominated by football fans and politicians, MPR News’ editors made a fine choice in selecting this image at the top of their Photos of the Week presentation this week.
The expressions are haunting, and they’re shared by the families of other recent war victims.
Like Ronald Herbert Wildrick Jr. of New Jersey…
David A. Johnson of Mayville, Wisc. He was 24…
Brig. Gen. Terence J. Hildner…
Sgt. William C. Stacey, 23, of Redding, Calif …
and Maj. Robert J. Marchanti II.
