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Picture of John Gebhardt, a Med Group Chief in Iraq . This little girl's entire family was executed and they intended to execute her also.
The terrorists shot her in the head, but failed to kill her. She's in the hospital and healing, but has been crying and moaning The nurses said John is the only one she seems to calm down with, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both sleep in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing (from correspondence among wives of service members.)

By Luvn29 on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 08:28 am:

I love this. What makes me ill is the fact that we don't see this plastered all over the papers and all over national television for people to see. I am sure that everyone would love to see things like this, hope and love, in their newspapers. This picture and story should be EVERYWHERE!!!

By Mom2three1968 on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 10:31 am:

thank you for checking and posting...

By Tsa on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 10:39 am:

If this doesn't make you proud to be an American!! What a wonderful scene and a wonderful act of LOVE. God Bless these two and God Bless America.

By Dawnk777 on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 10:48 am:

It is a wonderful thing and I agree that it would be a good story for the newspapers, too.

By Conni on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 12:31 pm:

Wow, that is amazing. It's wonderful that she finds comfort in his arms. It brings tears to my eyes to see her little head and know that she lost her entire family.

Thanks for posting. I for one would love to see more stories like this.

By Sandysmom on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 12:41 pm:

That is so heart warming. Thank you so much for sharing.

By Melanie on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 03:31 pm:

Wow, what an amazing thing for that man to do. Thank you for sharing that with us.

By Nicki on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 03:38 pm:

This is heart warming and heart breaking at the same time. What a wonderful man. And yes, this would be good for all to see.
Thank you for sharing.

By Cocoabutter on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 09:01 pm:

Another story

Thanks for this. It brings tears to my eyes thinking about how this soldier exemplifies Jesus' love for children.

By Shann on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 09:22 pm:

very very heart warming. I remember hearing on the news a little while ago about the family being killed and she survived. It definelty a tear jerker