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By Joel Garreau / The Bulletin
May 23, 2009
The young American soldier recalled the time in Iraq he came across the badly burned little girl. He was on patrol. Trouble ahead. A house had been set on fire. In front of it was the girl, just standing there, all alone.
There he stood, helplessly, in full battle rattle, with his ballistic....
