Posted on 11/22/2007 3:37:47 PM PST by Romneyfor President2008
Editor's note: CNN agreed not to use the full names of the family members in this article due to concern for their safety. CNN and CNN.com will continue to follow Youssif's journey in the months ahead as he faces more surgeries.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Burned Iraqi boy Youssif shows no fear as he stares up at the rock-climbing wall. "I can do it fast and then I am going to stand on top."
It's a declaration of defiance and strength from the 5-year-old who will need plenty of both as he continues his long recovery from horrific burns suffered when masked men set him on fire.
In the eight weeks since his last surgery, the doctors' predictions are coming true and Youssif's face actually looks worse even as it gets better.
The skin graft on his nose is still healing and balloons placed under the skin of his right cheek and on his neck are almost fully inflated. Extra skin will grow over these tissue expanders and will then be stretched over Youssif's scars.
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Nice to see this boy celebrate here Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you.
It is good to see Youssif’s continued progress.
What kind of animals would set a child on fire? I am amazed at the evil.
Not animals, demons!
I pulled up YouTube and played a clip of the training scenes from Rocky IV set to a song called "Hearts on Fire" by Survivor. Then I reread the story as the music played.
Case in point, this lil' guy is a ROCKY: he's absorbing the punches, coming out swinging, he's getting up, coming back off the ropes and yelling *"Osam-AAAAAAAAAA!!!!"
*At the end of the training scenes of ROCKY IV, Stallone yells out "Drag-ooooooohhhh!!!!!", the Russian opponent he'd be fighting.
Al Queda and their sympathizers do that type of thing to “teach people a lesson and to terrorize them into submission. The only thing it would teach me is that I would do anything to kill every single one of them.
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