The Associated Press reports: Baby Who Had Surgery in United States for Heart Defects Heads Home to Afghanistan a Different Little Boy

• INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A frail 16-month-old boy diagnosed with severe cardiac
  problems at a refugee camp near Kabul began his return trip home Monday -
  surgically repaired and chubby-cheeked. The long journey for Qudrat Wardak began
  in September, when an Indiana National Guard doctor examined him at the camp
  near the Afghan capital and found numerous heart defects - the worst being the
  reversal of the heart's main blood vessels that stunted the baby's growth.
  He weighed about as much as a typical 5-month-old when he arrived in the
  United States in late February for surgery.
  "He couldn't talk, he couldn't
  play, he couldn't eat or do anything," Qudrat's father, Hakimgul Wardak, said as
  the boy and his father prepared to leave Indianapolis International Airport.

Then goes on to say,

• Abdul Matin Sharifi, who traveled with Qudrat and his father as their
  interpreter, said he expected the boy would have died without the work of
  military doctors and others who arranged for treatment unavailable in
  Afghanistan.
  "They really saved a life," Sharifi said. "He is really blessed
  by God. Someday he is probably going to be governor of Indiana."

This is a good story and I am sure there are many more we never hear about.