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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Heart to heart and eye to eye
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jeremy Redmon/AJC
Holding Nura, who was abandoned by her family in early 2003, is Capt. Peter Keough, a chaplain with the 49th Military Police Brigade. Nura has no arms or legs.• MORE PHOTOS
Far from home and missing their own children, the burly soldiers with the Fairfield, Calif.,-based 49th Military Police Brigade couldn’t resist when they saw the kids.
They set their rifles aside, pulled off their body armor and held the children tight, speaking softly, close to their ears.
They were visiting the Missionaries of Charity Teresa Dar Al Mahabha orphanage, which has been operating in Baghdad for 17 years.
The Catholic orphanage serves handicapped children, ages 2 to 12. Some are blind. Others have birth defects. Many were abandoned by their families.
The brigade, which includes soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga., recently delivered about a dozen boxes of diapers, baby formula and other items to the orphanage.
