Flutterby™! :

Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography this year. I'd seen these images without attribution as part of one of those big emails that people send around, but here are all 20 images:

After learning that a family had received their son's posthumous medals in the mail, Major Steve Beck planned an event he called "Remembering the Brave," during which he personally presented medals to families he has watched over. "When you think about what these guys did, it's not easy to look at these medals," he said. "What's the trade-off? How do you say 'This is for your son?'"

Well worth looking at all of the pictures. (Via Genehack)