This man is a Chief Master Sergeant in the USAF serving in Afghanistan, as high as you can go in enlisted ranks (E-9) 




John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was murdered.
The Taliban intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her.  She was cared for in John 's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing.

I saw this piece, headed "Take up the White Man's Burden", and felt moved to share it.


John