Iraqi boy receives surgery thanks to Marine

A story from Haditha Iraq you won't hear much about in the MSM: From Gainesville Times:

Ammar Haddad Muhammad, a 5-year-old Iraqi boy, and his father landed on time Saturday night in Charleston, S.C., to begin the process of getting life-saving surgery thanks to help from a Gainesville Marine.

Maj. Kevin Jarrard, a Marine from Gainesville who is currently in Iraq, identified little Ammar, whose father, Hammad, is an Iraqi police captain. Jarrard, a 35-year-old history teacher at Riverside Military Academy, commands Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines, a Marine Corps Reserve unit.

According to Patrick Campbell with the Rotary International club in Charleston, S.C., both Ammar and Hammad were a little tired after their 6,600-mile journey. [snip]

Ammar isn’t the first Iraqi child who has been helped by Jarrard. Amenah Al-Bayati, a girl from Haditha City, Iraq, was treated in the United States earlier this year for a serious, life-threatening heart defect. [snip]

Jarrard, who has been in Haditha for the past six months, is on his second tour of duty, having first been deployed in 2003 during the invasion.

During that time in Haditha, Jarrard and his unit have worked on rebuilding the city, not only its infrastructure, but also the trust of its residents.

"It’s been very peaceful for the time I’ve been here. There’s a lot of progress being made. The folks seem happy; the economy is rolling along at a pretty good clip; we’re doing a lot of rebuilding there. The Iraqis themselves have established a pretty strong and effective local government, so I think Haditha’s going to be just fine — it’s got a lot of possibility and a lot of potential," Jarrard told The Times in a phone interview from Iraq earlier this month.

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