ABC News
During his tour of duty in Iraq, Army Sgt. Johnny Kempen thought he’d seen everything, until he met a little girl who saw nothing at all.
Kempen noticed one day, as soldiers threw candy to children in a tense Baghdad neighborhood, a little girl standing out.
“Watching her trying to get the candy and not being able to get it, it was like watching a kitten or something trying to do it,” he said. “It was hard to watch.”
She was a 7-year-old girl named Zahraa, who was born with painful blistered corneas. After learning about her condition, Kempen decided he wanted to help. So he enlisted help from the tiny town of Crandon, Wis., close to where he grew up.
Giving the Gift of Sight
Even the town’s smallest residents were big donors. Many of Crandon Elementary School’s students donated funds to help Zahraa get her eyes repaired…
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