On Saturday, the LAT published a piece by Tina Susman and Said Rifai on page A8 about a 12-year-old Iraqi girl named Shahad Abbas Aziz who lost both legs below the knee in a roadside bombing in Baqubah, her home town. A Yank, Staff Sergeant Luis Falcon of New York, befriended the girl and helped arrange for prosthetic limbs so that her one wish could be fulfilled. "All I want is legs to walk to school," the LAT quoted her as saying.
The picture that accompanies the article shows a cute young girl in a denim jumper wearing ear rings. She'd fit right in in a Southern California mall. Sgt. Falcon deserves a medal and the LAT deserves an award for publishing the story, though it should have appeared on page one.
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