[Elfsea] Bronze Soldier

[Wilkerson, Glen D]

The bad news is, your picture did not transmit.
 
The good news is, I have seen it before - several times...
 
Alaric 

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	This statue currently stands outside the Iraqi palace,  now home
to the 4th Infantry division. It will eventually be shipped home and put
in the memorial museum in Fort Hood, Texas. 
	
	The statue was created by an Iraqi artist named Kalat, who for
years was forced by Saddam Hussein to make the many hundreds of bronze
busts of Saddam that dotted Baghdad. 
	
	Kalat  was so grateful for the Americans liberation of his
country; he melted 3 of the heads of the  fallen Saddam and made the
statue as a memorial to the American soldiers and their fallen warriors.
Kalat worked on this memorial night and day for several months. 
	
	To the left of the kneeling soldier is a small Iraqi girl giving
the soldier comfort as he mourns the loss of his comrade in arms. 
	
	Do you know why we don't hear a! bout this in the news?  Because
it is heart warming and praise wo rthy.  The media avoids it because it
does not have the shock effect that a flashed breast or controversy of
politics does.    But we can do something about it.   We can pass this
along to as many people as we can in honor of all our brave military who
is making a difference. 
	

	
	
	




	Celebrate who you are. After all, you can't be anyone else.

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