Luke P. Frist of the 209th Quartermaster Company, Lafayette, Indiana, United States Army Reserve, died on January 5, 2004, at Ar Ramadi, Iraq; Bryan Scott Wilson, a Marine corporal with the 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, died on December 1, 2004, in Al Anbar Province, Iraq; Matthew C. Frantz, an Army specialist with the 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, died on January 20, 2006, at Huwijah, Iraq; Nathaniel S. Baughman, an Army corporal with the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, died on July 17, 2006, at Bayji, Iraq; Cody Putman, an Army corporal with the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, 40th Cavalry Regiment, died on April 12, 2007, at Baghdad, Iraq; and Andrew R. Weiss, an Army sergeant with the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, died on May 3, 2007, at Baghdad, Iraq. “Most Precious Offering,” created by artist Saundra Whiddon, honors the courage and sacrifice of parents who held and nurtured the soldier from infancy and then, for the sake of others, must let him go. In the final goodbye, the parents show purpose and unspeakable selflessness. The infant is portrayed as vulnerable yet secure in the hands of his parents and is swaddled in the American flag. The father’s hand lifts him with determination and purpose, using his strength to hold the infant’s head securely for the entire journey, while the mother’s hand forms a nurturing pose as she reluctantly and slowly lifts her child toward the heavens. The infant emits both a cry of victory and a cry of separation, expressing the ambivalence even the bravest soldier feels when called to war. He clutches the American flag against his chest with one hand, clinging to familiar things, and with the other raises his flag toward the Creator, showing the courage soldiers exhibit when they dare to reach higher than others.