U.S. Navy (news - web sites) corpsman Jessica Ross checks the heart rate of a wounded Iraqi boy at the Surgical/Shock Trauma Platoon in the military camp Taqaddum, near the western Iraqi city of Falluja, in this photograph released on December 8, 2004 
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks to thousands of Marines during his visit to Camp Pendleton, California, December 7, 2004. Bush thanked the Marines for their service in Iraq