POY SIPPI – U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joseph Anderson stepped off a plane from Iraq Friday and saw his face on the cover of TIME Magazine.
“He just got off a plane in an airport in Maine and his buddy said, “Isn’t that you?’” said Laura Heeren, Anderson’s mother.
The picture shows an intense, though tired, Anderson on guard duty. The caption identifies him as a U.S. soldier with Alpha Company 3-21 Stryker Brigade searching for insurgents in Mosul, Iraq. Anderson, 22, did not know he would be pictured. [...]