Saving Mohammed

He was a young boy living in Iraq when he caught the eye of a major in the Michigan Army National Guard.The boy's mother took off his cap and exposed his disfigured head."Will you save me?" the boy, then 11, said to Maj. David Howell.Five months later, Howell got Mohammed a visa, a passport and a commitment from surgeons at Michigan State University that they would help the boy. Mohammed has since received thousands of dollars in free medical care, giving him a lot to be thankful for during his first Thanksgiving in America.His story is one of both the gratefulness of a boy and the remarkable commitment of a Michigan National Guardsman, who went off to fight a war and ended up repaying a debt and freeing a child from wounds of his youth. It is also about a boy who has made others feel blessed to have joined his journey.

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[sparks158]

@Elin48

So since we didn't get involved in the past, we shouldn't now? The job of the United Nations is to prevent Genocide. And since many countries don't like to get involved, it falls on us, whether you like it or not.

[Elin48]

@sparks158 ...yes I do, and I also know that the United States did not go into the war to save the Jews in the Holocaust, they only got into the war after Japan attacked the United States in Hawaii. We are not the police men in the world, nor should we be. While we are spending millions blasting the Middle East, our country is imploding from within.

[sparks158]

@Elin48

Do you know Kurds are? Do you know what Sunnis are? These people were being specifically targeted and massacred for their religion. Were you against stopping the Holocaust too?

[Elin48]

@sparks158 We saved this little boy and murdered thousands more...millions.

[sparks158]

@Elin48

But with Saddamn, thousands more Kurds would be dead. We had to do something.

[Elin48]

...the kind of freedoms we enjoy, the kind they never had with Saddam (and a laugh). Are you kidding here, with Saddam his father and uncle would still be alive.

Welcome to the freedoms of America...home foreclosures, over four million Americans with out health care, millions of people out of work, manufacturing jobs moved to other countries, public education funding drying up, but we are still the biggest producers and sellers of military weaponry throughout the world.