BAGHDAD (May 8, 2008) - Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon, 38, escorts 12-year-old Shahad Abbas and her mother to Baghdad aboard a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter, so that the young girl can receive her prosthetic legs. Falcon, a New Yorker from 1st battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, asked her what she wanted and learned that all she wanted was legs. Just three weeks before he's scheduled to leave Iraq, Falcon learned he would be able to help Shahad get legs. Shahad was fitted with prosthetic limbs in a U.S. military-funded clinic in Baghdad that normally provides artificial limbs for wounded members of the Iraqi security forces. Shahad lost her legs as she was walking to school when a roadside bomb exploded nearby. Two pieces of shrapnel are still lodged in her back to remind her of that day. Her little brother, Ali, was killed. U.S. Navy video (RELEASED)
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