Bush and his friends could learn something from these guys. Kudos to these veterans.

. - Bullets whizzed past as “Sarah” translated for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Shrapnel from a roadside blast hit her protective vest. In her off hours, she worried about retribution for helping the Americans. A sign reading “traitor” was posted on her family’s door.

“I survived by chance,” she said.

Now, she is in the United States under a visa program for Iraqis who have aided the U.S. military, and she is being helped by a network of Iraq veterans who try to make sure those new immigrants make a soft landing in this country.

Mathew Tully, an Albany-area lawyer who served in Iraq as a National Guard major, volunteered along with his wife to take in Sarah until she gets settled in a new culture and carves out a new life.

He didn’t know Sarah in Iraq, but he feels a sense of duty.

“There’s nobody else out there to help Sarah,” Tully said. “When you’re confronted with the fact that there’s somebody a half a world away who has no place to go when they get off the plane at JFK, I don’t know how as a good American, as a good Christian, I could turn her away.”

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