(CNN) -- A young boy in Kansas was among millions in America who watched the horrifying news this past weekend about the Chinook that went down in Afghanistan's Wardak province. That boy in Kansas soon found out that his father, a U.S. Army pilot, was aboard the doomed helicopter. In the midst of his world shattering, he could not understand why the Navy SEALs drew so much attention. There were 30 Americans on board that Chinook. Why wasn't anyone mentioning his father, a chief warrant officer with Bravo Company, 7th Battalion, 155th Aviation Regiment? So he sent in a photograph to CNN's iReport of his dad, Bryan Nichols, sitting with four of his Army buddies in front of a military aircraft.
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Braydon Nichols, 10, sent in a photo of his father to CNN's iReport
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His father, Bryan Nichols, was killed when the Chinook went down in Afghanistan
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Braydon couldn't understand why the Navy SEALs were drawing attention, but not his dad
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Bryan Nichols was to have come home on leave in nine days
"My father was one of the 30 US Soldiers killed in Afghanistan yesterday with the @placeholder rescue mission," he wrote.