Posted on 05/25/2003 8:47:39 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:51:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SAN DIEGO (AP) - When Marine Maj. Hal Sellers left for the war in Iraq, there were no guarantees that he would come home, or that his infant son Dillon would be there if he did.
The boy was born with an inoperable heart defect and needed a transplant to survive. His father left him with a prayer.
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God Bless this father, family and baby boy
Maj. Hal Sellers, with the Marine's 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion from Twentynine Palms, Calif, shown in this undated file photo, recently returned to Twentynine Palms from the war in Iraq (news - web sites) and found his son Dillon, now 7 months old, recovering from his March 12, 2003, heart transplant surgery. (AP Photo/Sellers Family)
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