A good story on Iraq

[The Wise Old owl]

"In the USA we the public never

» hear of the good/great that goes on in Iraq" "The killings most likely have always been going on, it just was

» never reported."

I think some folks here may like this picture. The little girl with the Spiderman shirt on was always on the corner of a route we traveled nearly every day during the year I spent in Iraq. She is cute as a button and doesn't appear to be "full-blooded" Iraqi. It was told to me by an interpreter that if Saddam should happen to pass and see her, she would have been killed. These children gathered as I said, everyday, to see the American convoys pass, with the hopes we would give them something, Anything. It became ritual to stop and pass out whatever we had, in an unofficial capacity. I have seen some very tough men with tears in their eyes the first time they saw these children. Yes, soldiers often end up being front line humanitarians, it just doesn't often make the news.

We nicknamed the little girl "Joe Dirt".

[Presley]

» Take a good look gents - these are just some of the people, due to various

» fears, countries are bailing out on....

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Hi everyone, I'm new here. I actually know the Cheif in the pic with the baby. I'm a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. I am a medic, this guy was a medic in the hospital I worked at in Wichita, Kansas.