This is a news story that made me cry, not tear up, cry. Sometimes the unfairness in life just slaps you in the face.
Ali, an 11 year old Iraqi boy, had a rare heat disease and needed surgery. His father met Capt Brian Freeman and asked if he could help. Several months later, with the help of Gift of Life International, he had several thousand dollars and an okay for Ali to go to NY for the surgery.
The same day, Capt Freeman, in his thirties, was kidnapped in Iraq and killed.
The day of the surgery, Charlotte Freeman received her husband's personal effects. Included was a portable video game which she gave to Ali saying that Brian would want him to have it.
He's always been a hero to me and our children," says Charlotte Freeman, Brian's widow. "Hopefully he's now a hero to everybody else, and an inspiration to everybody else as well."
I hope so, too. He deserves it.
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God bless him and his family.
ReplyDeleteBless them all.
ReplyDeleteYou made me sniffly again;-(
We kept his promise to help the 11-year old boy that he was trying to save, for him, his family, his unit, for Iraq and for all of us. We are blessed to have had him in our lives.
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