As U.S. leaves Iraq, Iraqi-turned-U.S. soldier bids goodbye to homeland
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/12/as-us-leaves-iraq-iraqi-turned-us.html
CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait — He was a scared and hopeful Iraqi teenager when the Americans invaded in 2003, waiting out the U.S. bombing campaign with his older brother in his family's home in Baghdad.
Nearly nine years later, in the predawn hours of Sunday morning, he rode out of Iraq with the last American military convoy, marking the end of the war as a 27-year-old soldier and U.S. citizen.
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