It’s amazing how heroic a human being can become when hardships hit.
Some people use human shields to do their wars. But some others become human shields themselves to save others.
Hadeel, an 18 year old sweet girl that I met in Damascus, decided to hold her three year old niece tight in her arms to protect her with her own body when they were under heavy shelling.
Little did she know that it was time for her niece to go. Shrapnel hit the little toddler’s head and killed her instantaneously and Hadeel also had shrapnel settled in her hip damaging her spinal chord leaving her half crippled.
Doctors could not even touch that part of her body, which caused her infections and a disfigured back.
Her smile could tell how hopeful she is that there are always brighter days.
The mark in her back could seem like a weakness but it is ever showing the heroic attitude that she took trying to save a helpless child’s life.
