var items = new Array (new ImageMetaData('**ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND, DEC. 29-30** Staff Sgt.  Michael Lage is assisted by his mother Rose Lage, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, on Friday, Dec. 7, 2007. Lage, who was injured in Iraq, was the only survivor of a blast that killed four others. Lage suffered third-degree burns to nearly half his body; part of his nose and ears were missing, and his face, scalp, arms and torso were seared. His left hand had to be amputated. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/071228/071228-Rose-lage-hmed-7p.jpg','8:51 p.m. ET, 12/28/07','Eric Gay / AP','AP',22423941));