This is a Beautiful Little Girl

by Loay Ayyoub, et al. (Washington Post)

“When you start out those cases, you have to clean them, because it’s all dirt and dust and gravel in the wound. And I’m cleaning the face and I’m cleaning the hair to make sure there aren’t any injuries underneath the hair. And then suddenly you see the braids.

And you see the hairband, the little plastic hairband, in the shape of a flower.

And it’s that, … you lose your breath.

You’re completely disarmed by it.

You’re completely devastated by it.

This is a beautiful little girl.”