BAGHDAD Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon, 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, when he saw Shahad Abbas. The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood.
Shahad Abbas, 11, lost her legs to a roadside bomb blast in Baqouba. Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon
befriended her, and on Friday she received artificial legs at a U.S.-funded clinic in Baghdad.
Army Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon carries a picture of Shahad Abbas in a shoulder pocket in his uniform. Falcon, a New Yorker, will leave Iraq in three weeks. ...
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BAGHDAD Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon, 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, when he saw Shahad Abbas. The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood.
Shahad Abbas, 11, lost her legs to a roadside bomb blast in Baqouba. Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon
befriended her, and on Friday she received artificial legs at a U.S.-funded clinic in Baghdad.
Army Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon carries a picture of Shahad Abbas in a shoulder pocket in his uniform. Falcon, a New Yorker, will leave Iraq in three weeks. ...