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HAVE I MENTIONED RECENTLY THAT I’M A GRANDFATHER?

Sophia Isabella Leslie Camacho is 10 months old…...maybe that’s why the following brought tears so quickly to my eyes.

In the nine months since she was born, tiny Fatima Jubouri first lost her father, then gunmen killed her mother and uncle and she was left alone and uncared for in a pile of garbage in Baghdad.

Police found Fatima, malnourished and suffering from dehydration in Iraq’s scorching summer heat, hidden under rubbish in one of southern Baghdad’s most violent districts.

How she got there is not clear, although there is speculation her mother hid her before she was killed.

Do Americans in general have ANY idea how blessed each of us is, simply to have been born in the best country on God’s green earth? EVERY TIME you even think of complaining about something, think of Fatima and her family in Baghdad…..

Children are particularly vulnerable in Iraq’s sectarian violence that has killed tens of thousands of people and made millions homeless. A report by British charity Oxfam also said at least 28 percent of Iraqi children were malnourished.

For now, Fatima is the centre of attention, doted on by nurses and other visitors to her ward. But soon, and no one at the hospital knows exactly when, U.S. soldiers will return to take her to an orphanage to join her five siblings.

Say a prayer for these six little kids….and for our heroes in Iraq, struggling and dying in order to bring a better life to that faraway land and its people, as well as to protect our citizens, the ungrateful along with those who recognize and appreciate their sacrifice.

READ MORE ABOUT FATIMA, HERE…..

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