Many Moved by Photo of Soldier, Iraqi Child

May 5, 2005 — -- A photo of a U.S. soldier clinging to a fatally injured Iraqi child has managed to capture attention and much of the violence rampant in Iraq.

Maj. Mark Bieger is shown tending to an Iraqi girl, who died in a dual blast attack in Mosul, Iraq, on Monday. Freelance photographer Michael Yon said Bieger was running to get her to an U.S. Army hospital for help.

"He wanted to get her to American surgeons immediately. So Maj. Bieger wrapped the little girl up in the blanket," Yon said. "He was telling soldiers, 'We're moving out.' "

Yon said Bieger tried to comfort the little girl as he cradled her, stopping every so often to talk to her.

Bieger is the operations officer of an Army Stryker unit in Mosul, which conducts dangerous search and destroy missions.

Bieger has three children of his own. His wife, Amy, says he was undoubtedly thinking of them at that moment.

"That is exactly how he would take care of any other child that he saw in need, just like he would his own," she said.

The American surgeons could not save the little girl. She and another child died as a result of the attack, and another 15 were injured.

"He just kept saying it was a very bad day," said Amy, "so I knew it tore him up."

ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas filed this report for "World News Tonight."