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From: The Washington Times | December 20, 2009
Presents of mind Talk about can-do spirit: It took only two kind-hearted American soldiers to amass an entire 2½-ton cargo truck worth of Christmas presents for the barefoot Iraqi children who lingered just outside the walls of Forward Operating Base Falcon in the south of Baghdad. Spc. Michael Petro, an infantryman with Company B, 252nd Combined Arms Battalion, had mulled over the idea of playing Santa Claus almost daily. "It's one of the poorest areas that we drive through. Every day, the kids come out running and waving," he recalls. "I just sent my mom an e-mail just basically saying, ...
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