Powerful Images Of Service People That Will Tear You Up

#1 Hang tight soldier

The tattoo of wounded soldier Kyle Hockenberry becomes reality.

#2 Ryan Lee and dog

Petty Officer Ryan Lee and Valdo snuggle on a hospital floor after a lucky escape.

#3 Car crash

Fire fighters pull a mother and daughter from a car wreck dangling over a bridge.

#4 Fire fighter to the rescue

A fire fighter pulls a young boy from a fire.

#5 Golden Gate Bridge

Kevin Berthia is talked out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge by police officers. He has since become an advocate for suicide prevention and has started a family.

#6 World war two

A medic bandages the injured foot of a child while his younger brother looks on.

#7 U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett holds a child after she was separated from her family during a fire fight.

#8 Boston Marathon bombings

Jeff Bauman is rushed to hospital after the Boston Marathon bombings.

#9 Bangladesh

Rescuers pull Reshma, who survived her injuries, from the ruins of a garment factory building which collapsed 16 days earlier in Bangladesh.

#10 Mumbai

Rescue workers carry a child who was rescued from the rubble at the site of a collapsed residential building in Mumbai.

#11 Kiki saved!

Kiki, age 7, is pulled from the ruins left by the Haiti earthquake by American fire fighters and into the arms of his mother.

#12 Beijing hero!

A policeman in Beijing handcuffs himself to a suicidal woman and throws away the key to save her life.

#13 Helping fellow soilders

American soldiers of the 4th Armored Division push a trapped car carrying two seriously wounded German soldiers.

#14 US medic

A US Medic attempts to save the life of a wounded comrade.

#15 Hope they found help

Wounded soldiers reach for a rescue helicopter, Vietnam.

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