Cultural Walls Fall As West Des Moines Students Raise $15,000 To Bury Classmate In Iraq

Iowa Teens Raise Funds To Send Killed Iraqi Student Home For Burial

When senior Katie Baum and her peers at West Des Moines Valley High School raised $15,000 to help a grieving family send their son’s body home to Iraq, it hadn’t sunk in yet that the same cultural barriers that confound nations had silently fallen along the way.

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