True Emotion: 2nd Brigade Combat Team Soldiers Return To Ft. Carson...

FORT CARSON, CO - AUGUST 18: Sherie Whiteside watches as her grandson Spc. Travis Loomis and fellow U.S. Army soldiers arrive on August 18, 2009 to Fort Carson, Colorado. Her son and Travis' father Greg Loomis was killed while working as contracter in Iraq just over a year before. Approximately 575 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat team from the 4th Infantry Division returned Tuesday following a 12 month deployment to Iraq. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Hand unconsciously placed over the heart signifies true emotional feelings of love, warmth, and/or caring- all depending on the situation.

Mouth blocking is done when we do not want to do something (such as show our amusement at the expense of others, show surprise or fear, talk, scream or shout out, or laughing in older people) in this case it is much more... it is to hold all emotion back.

This is one of the rare photographs where (subtle expression training is all important in spotting this) where the eyes are showing sadness and the mouth is showing happiness.

It is rare to express emotions on opposite ends of the continuum, at the same time.◦

True Emotion: 2nd Brigade Combat Team Soldiers Return To Ft. Carson...