Since Carver reported that the parents were not brought into contact with their dead children, while Heslin claims to have held his son in his arms at the scene, they cannot both be telling the truth. In fact, there is overwhelming proof that both are lying.
NBC perpetrated a hoax on the American public, not recognizing that Heslin had gone “off script”! The 26 surviving families have split between $27 million to $130 million in donations from sympathetic but gullible Americans taken in by the charade.