CNN commentator Scott Jennings shared one photo captured on Memorial Day that truly showed the "heaviness of the sacrifice" our fallen soldiers make for us to live in a free country.
In the post on Monday on X, Scott shared a graveside picture of the family of fallen Marine Sgt. Christopher James Jacobs was taken at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on May 25, 2015.
The photo showed Jacobs' widow, Brittany Jacobs, sitting by her late husband's grave while wiping tears from her cheeks. Standing next to his father's headstone was their son, Christian Jacobs, who wore Marine dress blues as he placed his little hand and cheek on the final resting place of his father.
"If the heaviness of the sacrifice was ever captured in a photo, it's this one," Jennings captured his post. Remembering the fallen on this #MemorialDay."
The photo was posted on the Department of Defense website with a message that, in part, read:
"Brittany, left, and her son, Christian, 4, visit the grave of her husband and his father, Marine Corps Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, on Memorial Day in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 25, 2015," the message read. "Christian is wearing his father's cover."
In 2024, RedState interviewed the Marine widow who spoke fondly of when President Donald Trump, then 45th President of the United States, shared a sweet hug with her son at her late husband's gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in 2017.
Neil McCabe wrote at the time:
"It was very sincere," said Brittany Jacobs, whose husband, Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, was killed during an Oct. 24, 2011, premobilization training event at the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, also known as 29 Palms, because it is in Twentynine Palms, California.
Jacobs said Trump was taken in by her son.
"Trump came to him with a sincerity, caring, genuine, heartfelt," she said. "He hugged him the next time we saw him."
The professional photographer said she had no idea they would encounter Trump that Memorial Day.
"Every year when we go there and you're at that area, you don't know who's going to come through there," she said.
"They had cleared out a path, and when he came through, Christian went to walk up--obviously I stayed back--and he walked up to the president and asked him: 'Do you want to meet my Daddy?'" she said.
"President Trump followed him, and Christian went straight to the headstone," Jacobs said.
As Trump looked along, her son, wearing Marine dress blues with the sergeant stripes with a white combination cover and white dress gloves, showed the President photos his mother had brought to the gravesite, she said.
"He was showing him pictures from our wedding, and he told him: 'This is the one where they threw rice on my Mom and Daddy,'" Brittany said.
"I would always bring pictures and stuff, and we would sit there and just talk about memories and stuff like that. I would do that with him," Jacobs said. "He kind of just shared some of the memories with the president."
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