Thanks to an alert squad of US Marines deployed to Iraq, a little Iraqi girl with a potentially lethal heart condition received life-saving surgery at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is now home with her family.

Two-year-old Amenah Thabit of Haditha is not the first child (or adult) in war-riven Iraq to be helped by US Forces, nor will she be the last. A big Marine Corps OORAH! to those Leathernecks and to the docs and nurses at Vandy and to the Nashville area family who hosted Amenah and her mother during their stay here.