A few days ago we saw how a basketball coach defended having given permission to a player of his team to see his baby born, despite being fighting for a place in an important final, precisely because being a father was even bigger than that competition.
Now, that the player could do it does not mean that all men can do it, as happens with this American soldier who is deployed far from his partner, missing the pregnancy photo session. Fortunately, they found a way to appear together in an image full of contrasts.
Nor can it be for childbirth
As we read in Bored Panda, they are Veronica Y Brandon Phillips, a couple from Miami, Florida, who have only been able to share the beginning of her pregnancy. Brandon had to go abroad with the Air Forces and not only has much of the pregnancy been lost, but neither can he see his son born.
Therefore, when she hired a pregnancy photo session with photographer Jennifer McMahon, she asked if there was any possibility that Brandon also appeared in a photo. She answered yes, and thanks to an image of him crouched in his uniform, he got the photo that heads this post and that, no doubt, says a lot not only about them, but also of the society in which we live (and mostly Americans live).
A photo full of contrasts
Surely in each of you evokes different things. Some will see the loneliness of a woman who will be a mother without her partner. Others will see the sadness of a father who will not see his son born, nor support his wife at that time. She stands barefoot in the soft grass. He crouched down, surrendered to the power of life, in a barren brown landscape.
And his hands ... his hands. One in the womb from which a new life will soon be born and the other in the weapon whose mission is to end the lives of others.
"Serve and protect your country," they call it. But this is another issue. Hopefully he can come back soon and not miss much of his son, so that his son does not miss much of his father.
