Beam of Light Shines on Fallen Soldier's Miracle Dog

By ABC News’  Kimberly Launier

It was an overcast day in Newport, N.H., when a simple β€œ20/20β€³ shoot turned into something that made me wonder about life after death.

I was filming soldier Justin Rollin’s parents Skip and Rhonda playing with their dog Hero, whose rescue from the Iraq War zone where Justin died was nothing short of a miracle.

Sometimes when Rhonda hugged Hero she would softly pet her face and coo, β€œJustin, are you in there?”  It was Rhonda’s gentle way of remembering their son and his last living connection to Hero. At one point, Hero wandered off and took a stroll in the backyard. All of a sudden, the clouds broke and a light began to solidify in a beam directly down on Hero β€” a kind of vertical halo.