photographer william beal worked for the washington daily news. he was a marine combat photographer and he, in fact, was part of the same unit where joe rosenthal was and, of course, we all know joe rosenthal photographed that amazing image of the five marines and navy corpsman raising the american flag up on mount suribachi in iwo jima. however, mr. beal was on the other side of the island so he wasn't able to have -- he wasn't able to see what was going on or have the opportunity to capture the image. however, ten plus years after that his opportunity came, he was sent by his paper to cover a parade in chinatown and so as he's looking around he realizes this is a pretty big parade and out of the corner of his eye he notices this little boy, tiny little boy, looking at a policeman who is just bent down talking to him. what we can't see is that behind the policeman there is a very large dragon that is part of the parade and there are lots of firecrackers all over the ground and so the policeman is just trying to warn very gently that tiny little b