Today’s Feel Good Story!!!
The Washington Times’ Maya Alleruzzo is reporting on the work of Majority Leader Bill Frist, the Pentagon, the State Department and Atlanta’s Shepherd Center to help a badly injured Iraqi captain.
A renowned Atlanta medical center has agreed to treat without charge a decorated Iraqi army captain paralyzed in an insurgent attack during home leave Christmas Day. The case of Capt. Furat, chronicled in The Washington Times, has been taken up by U.S. Army officers who consider him a hero and by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, (R-TN), who is working to clear bureaucratic hurdles so that the Iraqi soldier can come to the United States for treatment.
Officials from Atlanta’s Shepherd Center said they would treat the 28-year-old captain pro bono in response to a personal appeal Tuesday by U.S. Army officers from two battalions attached to Capt. Furat’s unit in Iraq’s Diyala province. Capt. Furat, his real name is being withheld to protect his family in Iraq, wept upon hearing the news. “Really, I don’t know how to thank everybody for this,” he said in a telephone interview from his hospital bed at the giant U.S. Air Force field hospital in Balad, Iraq.
Read the entire article. It’s both compelling and inspirational.
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February 4th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Boehner selected House majority leader
In an upset, House Republicans selected Rep. John Boehner of Ohio for their new majority leader Thur
February 4th, 2006 at 11:06 am
I wonder if the Democrats will stand up and clap for that? I’m thinking ‘no.’