Flat Daddy

My attention was drawn to this story by a news report on NPR. Seems that the Maine National Guard has made a service available to soldiers and their families: they will take a high-rez photo of Daddy--or Mommy, as pointed out in the article and story--blow it up to life-size, and mount it on stiff foam so that the families missing parents, or children, or siblings, can have an image of the missing person to carry along with them. (News stories at Boston Globe, Here's work in progress (images drawn from Boston Globe,Portland Press Herald, and Metafilter:







So, if you want to have Daddy sit in the backseat with you on a drive, no problem:







And family reunions and dinners at the local Denny's are a snap if you can bring the guys along (and the dinner tab is lots cheaper):







This got some commentary from Jesus' General as well as the posters on Metafilter.

I'm curious as to what people think on this one.[genre for post--looks to me like response.]