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| Iraq |
| US Medics Save An Iraqi Child's Life |
| 2005-10-19 |
| Life Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it. - Pamela Glenconner Last night a grain of hot metal tumbled through the air, a swift manmade meteor crashing through the heavens. The statistical chances of this solitary round impacting one the scattered buildings was negligible, and the chances of it actually injuring someone were almost infinitesimal. But in stark defiance to all known laws of probability, this small sliver of dead steel plummeted downward, downward, downward
until its path intersected a house. And then it continued on, tunneling its way into a little girl sitting down for the celebration of Iftar... |
| Posted by:RG |
| #2 Well written story, and a genuinely moving tale. Tears were rolling down my face by the time I got to the end of the post -- our troops are definitely the Good Guys! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-19 16:30 |
| #1 I stand in awe of a) the skill and professionalism of these men and women in uniform and b) their talent in writing so vividly about it, in the above post and any number of other milblogs. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2005-10-19 11:56 |