Modern War Heroes

Dedication to a cause has no limits:

With bombs falling around them, Doctors Without Borders refused to leave Iraq — continuing to work in a Baghdad hospital treating the torrent of sick and wounded despite the dangers of war.It wasn’t long before two members of the Medecins Sans Frontieres — as the group is known internationally — were carted away to the regime’s most notorious prisons by the Iraqi secret police, accused of being spies.

“The way that they presented it, [it is] as if they don’t believe humanitarian work at all,” said Ibrahim Younis, 31, an aid worker taken from his hotel April 2 along with Francois Calas, 44, head of the doctors’ Baghdad mission.

Calas and Younis were held in a vast jail and two crowded prisons before being freed April 11. The two men and four volunteer doctors who worked at al Kindi hospital in northeast Baghdad resumed their healing work a short time later. Read on…

This is truly an inspiring account. While these men aren’t soldiers, they risked it all to be where they were most needed. And they didn’t let their bad experiences get them down or discourage them. They jumped back into the fray!