CPT. Kettner is one of our Soldiers' Angels adoptees. Here's just one of the ways he - and all of our troops - have earned the title of Heroes:

Soldiers from Bloomington unit help save Iraqi boy
By Scott Richardson
FORWARD OPERATION BASE BUCCA, Iraq — Members of the 33rd Military Police Battalion based in Bloomington gave a special Christmas gift to a 15-year-old Iraqi boy who was dying of brain cancer.

About a month after arriving in Iraq in October, the U.S. soldiers arranged for the boy to be transported to Kuwait where doctors performed an operation to remove the large tumor.

The growth had stunted his growth. He appeared to be just age 6 or 7 and was barely conscious when the boy’s father, Mussa Abbud of northern Rumailah, carried Sattar to the gates of the base located in south Iraq near the city of Um Qasr, said Master Sgt. Matt Feit of Normal in an email to the Pantagraph from Iraq...


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