Remembering Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Walker

I had a pretty hard assignment today — to go into the home of parents who just lost their son to the war in Iraq. It's difficult to take pictures of people when they're grieving. The only thing you can do is be as sensitive as possible and hope your not intruding too much. Well, it went as well as it could today — I took as few pictures as possible while at least getting a few frames I thought portrayed the grief this family is going through. It brought tears to my eyes. Here's the caption: Teresa Rutledge, mother of Jeffrey Walker, a 21-year-old Marine who was killed Monday by a sniper in Iraq, and Dana Young, Walker's 18-year-old girlfriend, talk about Walker and his life on Wednesday. "His niece asked why he was a soldier, and he told said 'So that you can play on the playground,'" Rutledge said.