If this doesn’t tug at your heart strings then nothing will.

Specialist Claudia Alonso hugs Joseph Mendoza, 4½, at the burial service for Army Sgt. Jacob Molina, 27, at the Houston National Cemetery, Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, in Houston. Alonso went to Austin High School with Molina who was killed July 19 in Afghanistan when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Karen Warren)