The young and innocent victims who may never trust adults again

ONE of them was a firefighter, the other a soldier. One was an American, the other a Russian. But they were so alike, the way they carried their light burdens.

So alike, the big hands cradling the little bodies, their great strength an unsought contrast with the fragile limp toddler limbs.

The firefighter was coming out of a demolished crèche in a federal building in Oklahoma City, the soldier coming out of a wrecked school in Moscow. Each holding a child victim of terrorism. Nearly 10 years separate the two pictures, but they are eerily similar portraits of the end results of terrorism.