Warning: this one might make you a little weepy. Because no matter your stance on the war in Iraq, the thought of a soldier hundreds of thousands of miles away from home getting a chance to watch his child come into the world is a beautiful one.
And thanks to Freedom Calls, a non-profit that uses donations to provide free videoconferences, internet calls and instant messaging services for troops serving overseas, dads in the sands of Iraq have watched sons born in Louisiana and daughters born in upstate New York. Just this week, Army Medic Christopher Corp heard his son's first cry in a hospital room in Arkansas while serving his duties as a National Guardsman in Iraq.
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