Minutes earlier, soldiers had been sweeping the sidewalk and the front steps, saying they wanted everything to look perfect when the bus pulled up.

From time to time, soldiers with brooms swept the flowers into small mountains that seemed to mark the death of more than a President.

His soldiers swept around him, giving him a short breathing space.

Flying together as the order was given and the soldiers swept forward.

All the time he was preaching, a soldier in the turret swept the countryside with a big heavy machine gun.

They tried to get chocolate for the children at several shops, but the soldiers had swept the town clean of sweets of every kind.

The soldiers swept the streets, set up roadblocks.

The savage soldiers were stopped as if swept by a sudden high wind.

Lieutenant Bickham carried a wounded soldier across a "fire swept field".

As the video continues the soldier sweeps in to the rescue of the family, dying a hero in the process.