A widow grieves at the grave of her husband killed in Afghanistan
Thania Sayne of Effingham, Illinois, leans on the headstone at the grave of her husband, Army Sgt. Timothy D. Sayne, during the playing of taps at a nearby burial service at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, a day before what would have been their third wedding anniversary. Sayne, was 4 months pregnant with their second son, Douglas, when her husband was killed on Sept. 18, 2011, in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
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Sgt Timothy Douglas Sayne
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We are used to the figures of killed and injured coming from the conflicts in the East, but when I saw the picture above it really hit home for me.
Moggy
By: EGTC - 9th December 2013 at 01:23
That really is ever so sad and touching. 🙁
By: trumper - 8th December 2013 at 22:17
That doesn’t look posed to me,there’s something more intimate about the way she is leaning into the headstone.Posed ones seem to be more head on -oh i don’t know just going by the look and feel for me.Whichever it is i hope one day she and the family find peace and happiness once more.
By: Moggy C - 8th December 2013 at 21:52
What I see is a fellow human hugging a cold, dead stone in an attempt to just once more feel the warmth of the man she loved.
It may have been posed – but I am happy to leave that cynicism behind and take the image at face value. Or at worst as a metaphor for loss.
Bless you Mrs Sayne
Moggy
By: John Green - 8th December 2013 at 19:40
Heartbreakingly poignant.
By: paul178 - 8th December 2013 at 18:44
Amen trumper
By: trumper - 8th December 2013 at 17:29
It’s the ones left behind who suffer the longest.
By: charliehunt - 8th December 2013 at 17:19
Indeed, as it has been for the thousands of war widows and fatherless children before her, like my grandmother and mother.
By: Lincoln 7 - 8th December 2013 at 17:13
It’s a saddening sight to see Moggs, Christmas for this young lady, and many more like her, will never be the same again, very sobering to say the least.How do you explain to very young children, that “Daddy won’t be coming home any more”?.
Lets Pray it’s all over soon
Jim.
Lincoln .7
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December 8, 2013 at 4:24 pm