A Slightly Different Something

I wrote a little last week about a photograph I had found that I felt was incredibly moving.  I decided I wanted to create something out of that photograph.  I just wanted to share the resulting sketch.  I still feel like there is a story in this picture somewhere, though I'm not yet sure what it is.  The grieving soldier likely lost a comrade and friend, though there could be other stories to fit it as well... perhaps guilt over a first kill, or bad news from home.  I don't know.  What I do know is that the greiving soldier isn't really the focal point of the picture... It's his fellow soldier that really draws your attention.  The look in his face as he comforts his brother in arms is simply unforgettable.  This picture shows us heroes, human heroes, as subject to awful realites of the world as we are, who still stand up to do their duty every day, despite the sacrifices and the pain that beset them.  Men like these are more admirable than Hercules or Superman, because they can bleed and they can cry, and they still carry the weight of the world on their shoulders.