11.   Blaska is the country doctor grieving with his wife, Paola Styron, over the coffin of their dead child.

12.   A rare exception was the picture of the fireman carrying the body of a dead child after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

13.   A sobbing tailor ceaselessly mends the tattered clothes of dead children.

14.   A woman keening for a dead child sounds exactly as raw in an earth-floored hovel as it does in a silk-carpeted drawing room.

15.   After that, more dead children wrapped in sheets were laid at her feet.

16.   Afterward, his wife left him, because his face was an unbearable reminder of their dead child.

17.   Dead children.

18.   Could it also explain why stories about doctors removing body parts from dead children provoke both revulsion and fascination?

19.   Digging through fist-size chunks of concrete mixed with toys and little tennis shoes, Giblet helped excavate four or five dead children from the rubble.

20.   For others, it was responding to a gruesome accident scene or finding a dead child.