Photographer's Narrative

I have nothing but the utmost respect for the captain and his family pictured here. Capt. Nathanial Nelson was an intelligence officer with the 24th Special Operations Wing who was medically retired due to injury sustained on a deployment. Paralyzed from the waist down, he had every reason to be bitter and upset, but his enthusiasm for life was encouraging and his family was wholeheartedly on his side for the long run. At the end of the ceremony, the narrator came over and laid a hand on Nelson and his daughter couldn’t stay away from her father anymore. She broke away from her mother and ran toward Nelson for the best display of broken protocol I’ve seen.