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03/28/2003 Archived Entry: "Medic made famous in photo enlisted after 9-11"

WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT: Orrin Judd over at Brothers Judd Blog has a great entry about Pfc. Joseph P. Dwyer, a medic made famous by a picture showing him carrying a wounded Iraqi child to safety.

Dwyer enlisted after September 11, 2001 after he found out that his brother, a police officer, had not died when the World Trade Centre collapsed. Grateful, he joined up to make a difference.

"An almost perfect metaphor for America: we're attacked; he wants to do something; he ends up saving a child of our enemy. We fight that one day soon an Iraqi version of Pfc. Dwyer may return the favor for another oppressed people somewhere in the world," writes Orrin.

Damned right. That's why I love America.