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U.S. Special Forces Medic Staff Sgt. Joe Murtaugh watches as Dalal, an 8-year-old girl from Iraq’s Anbar province, draws a picture on July 14, 2007. Murtaugh escorted the girl and her father to Baghdad so they could catch a free flight to Amman, Jordan, where Dalal received surgery July 23 to correct a life-threatening congenital heart defect. Photo by Master Sgt. Melissa Phillips, USAF

U.S. Special Forces Medic Staff Sgt. Joe Murtaugh watches as Dalal, an 8-year-old girl from Iraq’s Anbar province, draws a picture on July 14, 2007. Murtaugh escorted the girl and her father to Baghdad so they could catch a free flight to Amman, Jordan, where Dalal received surgery July 23 to correct a life-threatening congenital heart defect. Photo by Master Sgt. Melissa Phillips, USAF

U.S. Special Forces Medic Staff Sgt. Joe Murtaugh watches as Dalal, an 8-year-old girl from Iraq’s Anbar province, draws a picture on July 14, 2007. Murtaugh escorted the girl and her father to Baghdad so they could catch a free flight to Amman, Jordan, where Dalal received surgery July 23 to correct a life-threatening congenital heart defect. Photo by Master Sgt. Melissa Phillips, USAF

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