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The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her.

News and Sentinel | Parkersburg

Feb 8, 2026

The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he'd signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency - that the child injured on the batt…

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