It is hard to believe that the war has lasted 5 years. Here is a sad story of a family that has made the ultimate sacrifice:Laura Youngblood clutched her husband's photo as she drove alone to the hospital. She'd become pregnant nearly nine months earlier, the day he'd left for training for Iraq. Hours later, after the baby was born, she placed the photo in the bassinet next to the infant he'd named Emma in his last letter home. He would never hold her.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis L. Youngblood, 26, had died two months earlier, killed by an improvised explosive device.
Laura Youngblood is just 29 years old, but she insists she will not remarry. Her life is her children, now ages 2 and 7. One day, she says, she'll be buried in the plot with her husband at Arlington National Cemetery.
"I tell people I'm a happily married woman," she says, crying.
This got to me as bad as that photo of the young widow sleeping on the floor next to her husband's casket. There was a Marine guard over them all night.
ReplyDeleteI hope this young woman finds another man that deserves her love and loyalty.