Soldiers rescue orphans near death

Yesterday I happened to tune in to the military news service and was immediately emotional over what I was witnessing. The sad comment to a wonderful humanitarian job done by our soldiers is that I had to dig for the article, not finding it anywhere. Had it not been for the announcer saying that CBS News shared the video, I would have never located it.

Click here for full article, you may not find it anywhere else.

Soldiers of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division on a day patrol happened to look over a wall into the rear of an Iraqi orphanage and looked directly into his worst nightmare.

Here is a direct quote from the CBS News article, "They saw multiple bodies laying on the floor of the facility," Staff Sgt. Mitchell Gibson of the 82nd Airborne Division told CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. "They thought they were all dead, so they threw a basketball (to) try and get some attention, and actually one of the kids lifted up their head, tilted it over and just looked and then went back down. And they said, 'oh, they're alive' and so they went into the building."

Sadly, this was a government-run orphanage for special needs children and had been kept this way for more than a month.

In another quote from the same article, "The kids were tied up, naked, covered in their own waste — feces — and there were three people that were cooking themselves food, but nothing for the kids," Lt. Stephen Duperre said."

I cannot do justice to the wonderful act of our men in uniform. Please, Click Here and watch the same video that I saw on the news service channel.

These men did a wonderful job and this story should be more than it is.