There's a moment that Muhammad Dolaymi will never forget. It was the first time in my

life I made a lie. And I lied to a child. It was 20 years ago. Dolaymi was a college student

at the University of Baghdad in Iraq. He was living in Fallujah. The US had just launched

its invasion. In a warning here, this story and the rest of this episode include descriptions

of the realities of war. There is a shooting on the highway in Fallujah that resulted in

many deaths of civilians. And I saw what I've never thought I would see in my life. So

many cars, shots, so many people lying on the side of the street. One of the cars was

a pickup truck. Father was on driver's seat. He was killed. The mother was in passenger

seat. She was killed. Their child, he looked about 10 years old, had survived. Rescuers had

pulled him out, laid him on his side so that he couldn't see the truck, couldn't see

what had happened to his parents. He was badly injured, but he refused to go to the hospital.

He said, I don't want to live with my father on mother hard death. He was holding my hand

in such a force. It was amazing for me how a 10-year-old can do that. And he said, please

I don't want to be an orphan. If they are dead, let me die. And that was my first lie

in my life. I was like, no, you're going to be okay. You're going to take you to hospital.

And he said, sweat by God there alive. And I did. After the war, Muhammad Dulami

moved to the US and now works as an engineer in Virginia. But the invasion that began

in 2003 and the occupation that followed altered the course of Dulami's life as it did

for so many Iraqis and US service members. Some of the changes are obvious. Some are

less visible. Dulami says he lost track of that boy he saved, but he's still living

with the memory of that day. It changed my life in so many ways. And whenever someone

is talking about life, I remember that kid who holds my hand and said, sweat by God,

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