Bryant saw a flash on the screen: the explosion. Parts of the building collapsed. The child had disappeared. Bryant had a sick feeling in his stomach.
?Did we just kill a kid?? he asked the man sitting next to him.
?Yeah, I guess that was a kid,? the pilot replied.
?Was that a kid?? they wrote into a chat window on the monitor.
Then, someone they didn?t know answered, someone sitting in a military command center somewhere in the world who had observed their attack. ?No. That was a dog,? the person wrote.
They reviewed the scene on video. A dog on two legs?