In the Heat of Battle 2

One of the situational dangers of the battlefield was illustrated by the
death of a California Marine. The Mercury
News reports:

Marine Lance Cpl. Jeramy Ailes, 22, of Gilroy was killed Monday in Al-Fallujah
by small arms fire. "They had finished mopping up in Fallujah and they
went back to double-check on some insurgents. From what we gathered, somebody
playing possum jumped up and shot him,'' said his father, Joel Ailes, who
learned of his death Monday evening. "It's extremely hard."

... His first time in Iraq, Jeramy Ailes gave $10 to each child he came
across because he knew it would feed their families for 30 days. This time, he
asked his family to mail as many soccer balls as they could. His family sent
300 balls, and Jeramy Ailes' platoon handed them out to children.

Joel Ailes warmly remembered the last conversation he had with his son last
month, in which Jeramy Ailes recounted how he had come across a large man
walking with a 12-year-old girl carrying a huge bale of straw on her back. His
son, who spoke and read Arabic, exchanged words with the man. And, for the
next seven miles, his son carried the girl on his back and the man carried the
bales of straw. "That was my son," Joel Ailes said.

That was his son.