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You. Daddy. Love you and youu, and...

I'll never forget the first time I watch this video.

There's a little boy. He's about two. He's super cute and he has these huge beautiful brown eyes.

He's smiling and giggling as his mum coaxes him to say a few words. His name is Salman.

A Salman's, too man, and?

A.

A phone video for Salman's grandparents, his daddy and Dadu. They're thousands of miles

away in England. It was a rare and precious glimpse of their first grandchild.

And, come on, come on, and...

Sunman's one, and...

They had never met Selman, not in person.

Videos like this one, a few photos, a few phone calls and messages,

were all they had, and so they treasured them.

Silman and his mother Aisha, that's her in the video, were in Syria,

a country being ripped apart by war.

This video was one of the last Salmanin al-Nisha sent.

Not long after it arrived, the messages stopped. No more videos, no more photos, no more calls.

No one knew would have become of Salman.

That was late 2018. It's now been almost five years and still no one knows. Right, so I'm going to take the vest, the helmet, the ballistic glasses and the trauma kit.

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