In the centre a Russian mother cradles her dying soldier son.

Now she was nearly fifty, widowed with three grown-up daughters and a soldier son.

One mother quit when her soldier son demanded it.

How they would howl with laughter when, later, they heard from Harry the extraordinary news that their little soldier son had fallen for a subversive!

Her name's Andrea and she's delighted to entertain the soldier son of the famous you-know-who.

In one story, a confidence man takes the only photograph a family has of its dead soldier son, promising to deliver a framed enlargement for $30.

Here's to the fire of Lancashire, And here's to her soldier son!

Now here he was putting his boast into practice, the soldier son of a soldier father going off to war.

My soldier son says that there is still a great deal to be learnt from Hannibal.

And from the American perspective, the Iraqi government will have become something that no parent should be asked to risk a soldier son or daughter to protect.