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<td valign="top"><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 3/23/09, Melba Conaway <i><<a href="mailto:mbcway1@windstream.net" target="_blank">mbcway1@windstream.net</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Melba Conaway <<a href="mailto:mbcway1@windstream.net" target="_blank">mbcway1@windstream.net</a>><br>Subject: Fw: Do you know what this is?<br>
To: "Christy Plunkett" <<a href="mailto:christyplunkett@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">christyplunkett@sbcglobal.net</a>>, "Brad Conaway" <bconaway@KLTV.com>, "Beverly Johnson" <<a href="mailto:BeverlyJohnson@cbankandtrust.com" target="_blank">BeverlyJohnson@cbankandtrust.com</a>>, "Anna Carter" <<a href="mailto:nanaanna1c@yahoo.com" target="_blank">nanaanna1c@yahoo.com</a>><br>
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Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 2:56 PM<br><br>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Do you know what this is?</div></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" size="4">This statue currently stands outside the Iraqi palace,<br>now home to the 4th Infantry division.<br>It will eventually be shipped home and put in the<br>Memorial museum in Fort Hood , TX</font></div>
<div><br><font color="#000000" size="4">The statue was created by an Iraqi artist named Kalat,<br>who for years was forced by Saddam Hussein to make the many </font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" size="4">hundreds of bronze busts of Saddam that dotted Baghdad ...<br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" size="4">Kalat was so grateful for the Americans liberation of his country;<br>he melted 3 of the heads of the fallen Saddam and made the statue</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" size="4">as a memorial to the American soldiers and their fallen<br>Warriors. Kalat worked on this memorial night and day for several months.<br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" size="4">To the left of the kneeling soldier is a small Iraqi girl giving the soldier </font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" size="4">comfort as he mourns the loss of his comrade in arms.<br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" size="4">Do you know why we don't hear about this in the news?<br>Because it is heart warming and praise worthy..<br>The media avoids it because it does not have the shock effect.<br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" size="4">But we can do something about it.<br>We can pass this along to as many people as we can in </font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" size="4">honor of all our brave </font><font color="#000000" size="4">men and women in uniform.</font></div>
<div><br><font color="#000000" size="4"> William C. Thomson<br> Purple Heart Marine WW11<br></font></div></td></tr>
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