“Alex Callahan”
Posted on 04/12/2008 2:34:42 PM PDT by george76
Spotting irregularities is a tactic that is drilled into the minds of Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers throughout training and in practice while in Iraq.
Soldiers recently watched as a car pulled up to an entry control point at Forward Operating Base Callahan in northern Baghdad. They continued to watch as a woman stepped out of the car holding a bag. Once the woman dropped the bag near the gate, internal alarms were ringing and a careful search was called for and conducted...
...That search yielded a newborn baby wrapped tightly in several cloths. Soldiers raced to the bag, retrieved the child and brought him to the aid station to be examined.
“We unwrapped it to make sure he was alive – and he wasn’t sick, he wasn’t dead, he wasn’t injured,” said Staff Sgt. Paul Briscoe, the aid station non-commissioned officer in charge at FOB Callahan. “He was a perfectly healthy baby. I’m guessing three to seven days old. He was in perfect health. There wasn’t a scratch on him.”
After the medics were satisfied the baby, who by this time had drawn the nickname “Alex Callahan” after the Soldier who found him and the name of the base, was in no need of immediate medical attention, the focus shifted to what they would do with the child.
An interpreter working at the base volunteered to go to a nearby store to buy diapers and formula while another interpreter took care of Alex. Briscoe said the aid station became a hub of activity as word spread throughout the small base of the new arrival.
(Excerpt) Read more at blackfive.net ...
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The baby is to be adopted by the brother of a local national, who works at the base. The brother, and his wife, have been married five years and have been unable to have a baby of their own.
The interpreters at FOB Callahan have taken a collection to donate to the family to help care for the baby.
What a great story, and what a beautiful child!
A couple of comments on the original blog are notable. First, the woman with the baby knows that the Americans will take care of the baby. She knows about our kindness towards women and children and trusts them.
Second, the circumstances of the baby’s birth are unknown. If the woman was unwed, in Islamic culture such a birth dishonors the family. There have been instances in England and Western Europe where just unapproved dating by a young woman have lead to confinement, beatings and even death. This may have been one solution to saving the baby, the mother and the family’s honor.
In any event, it is a time for thanksgiving that the Americans were there and could help.
She trusted us? Imagine that.
I love happy endings, but someone must have set off some CS canisters here in the house. Old sarge needs a hanky.
/johnny
Don’t you know Nancy, et al are fuming.
Wonderful Story!
Nancy would have aborted him in a San Francisco minute.
“Alex Callahan”
But would she trust Dingy Harry? Nancy? Hillary?
Would she have trusted Obama?
Important questions...
Hello Hillery, hello Obama, hello Teddy and Nancy.
If you are so concerned where are you now?
Better investigate this and send anyone responsible to Leavenworth.
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Not really.
This childless widower’s eyes are filled with tears of pure joy. What a beautiful baby and what a happy beginning!
:^)
Here’s a wonderful story to brighten your weekend.
GOOD NEWS!
The good part of Americans can be used to harm us though. I would caution that they be very careful with abandoned babies until it is determined that they aren’t rigged to a bomb.
“Would she have trusted Obama?”
I doubt it. Obama would have let the child die. After all, no one should be “PUNISHED with a child.” Also, remember that it was OBAMA who led the charge against the law that would protect newborns who survived abortions. Even other, very liberal Democrats favored this law.
the terrorists wouldn’t wire a newborn, would they ?
After Army NBC school and getting a PhD in immunology......unfortunately....my first thought is “What nasty disease did they infect him with to use as a bio-weapon vector?”
Hope I’m really really wrong.
An interpreter working at the base volunteered to go to a nearby store to buy diapers and formula
the most significant part of the story. There was a time when Iraqis working for the US couldn’t venture offbase for fear of being killed.
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