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09-22-2016, 01:15 PM
Six-year-old's letter to Obama, reaching out to child war victim, will move you
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Try to watch this video and **t shed a tear.*
In it, Alex, a six-year-old boy from New York, reads a letter he wrote to President Barack Obama, inviting a Syrian refugee to live with his family.*
Just like many people around the world, Alex was touched by images (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/syria-boy-photo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) and video of Omran Daqneesh, dusty and bloodied, as he was being loaded into an emergency vehicle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cfBmRW3isc) following a bomb attack in Aleppo, Syria.*
"We will give him a family and he will be our brother. Catherine, my little sister, will be collecting butterflies and fireflies for him," says Alex.*
"In my school, I have a friend from Syria, Omar, and I will introduce him to Omar. We can all play together." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/22/letter-obama-omar-syria-refugee/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Try to watch this video and **t shed a tear.*
In it, Alex, a six-year-old boy from New York, reads a letter he wrote to President Barack Obama, inviting a Syrian refugee to live with his family.*
Just like many people around the world, Alex was touched by images (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/syria-boy-photo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) and video of Omran Daqneesh, dusty and bloodied, as he was being loaded into an emergency vehicle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cfBmRW3isc) following a bomb attack in Aleppo, Syria.*
"We will give him a family and he will be our brother. Catherine, my little sister, will be collecting butterflies and fireflies for him," says Alex.*
"In my school, I have a friend from Syria, Omar, and I will introduce him to Omar. We can all play together." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/22/letter-obama-omar-syria-refugee/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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