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High school graduation reunites Iraqi refugee soldier
Georgia high schooler reunites with soldier hero
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Jeremy Campbell, WXIA 3:17 p.m. EDT May 22, 2015Eighteen years ago an American soldier loaned out his name so an Iraqi mother could stay with her daughter. At graduation the helpful strangers were reunited.Lava Barwari graduated from Mill Creek High School on Thursday(Photo: Jeremy Campbell/WXIA)
CONNECT 40 TWEETCOMMENTEMAILMOREGWINNETT COUNTY,real madrid trikot 2014 ramos, Ga. -- Lava Barwari's graduation ceremony would not be complete without one man.
"He's been in my life for as long as I can remember," she said.
Barwari's referring to a soldier she met just once when she was 36 days old.
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Lava was born under a dictatorship in Iraq to a mother who worked with a children's relief organization that had ties to American churches. In Iraq in 1997 that was just cause for beheading.
"Sadaam Hussein was moving his forces up in to northern Iraq with a kill list on anyone who had been working with western organizations," explained former solider Greg Peppin.
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However when she got to the border, Lava's name wasn't on the roster for transport back to the States. The mother could go. The baby could not.
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That's when Army soldier Greg Peppin bent the rules.
He remembers telling the family "Lava's name is not on the list. But if the baby's name was Greg it's got to be related to me. And so it could go."
In that brief moment an American life began with a borrowed name.
The solider and the refugees would not speak again until Lava sent an email 18 years later.
"I wanted to thank him for everything he did for my family,bayern m��nchen kindertrikot g��nstig," she said.
Peppin did more than simply reply.
The now retired solider flew in from Washington.
"I am happy you tracked me down,trikot atletico madrid away," he told Lava. "I wouldn't have missed this for the world."
On Thursday,neues schalke trikot 14 15, he watched her walk across the stage at Mill Creek High School, her name on the list of graduates.
"They're perfect examples of someone coming to America and America embracing them and helping them achieve their goals," he said.
Lava plans to begin college this fall. Another graduation ceremony is in this family's future. Her mother completes her master's degree later this summer.
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