6-Year-Old Asks President to Bring Syrian Boy to His Hudson Valley Home

SCARSDALE, NY — President Barack Obama singled out a 6-year-old Edgemont boy named Alex in a speech this week at a United Nations summit on refugees.

The child recently wrote to the president about Omran Daqneesh, the child from Aleppo, Syria, who touched the hearts of people around the world when he was photographed sitting alone in an ambulance after his home was bombed.

“Dear President Obama, remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance—in Syria?” Alex hand wrote in a letter dated August 21, 2016. “Can you please go get him and bring him to [my home]? Park in the driveway or on the street and we’ll be waiting for you guys with flags, flowers and balloons.”

Obama read a portion of the letter Tuesday at the summit that said Alex would make Omran a part of his family and introduce him to a friend at his school who is from Syria.

“We can all play together,” Alex wrote.

Obama asked the summit attendees to imagine “the humanity that a young child can display, who hasn’t learned to be cynical, or suspicious, or fearful of other people because of where they’re from, or how they look, or how they pray, and who just understands the notion of treating somebody that is like him with compassion, with kindness.”

“We can all learn from Alex,” the president said.

“Imagine the suffering we could ease,” Obama said.

In his letter, Alex said that since Omran wouldn’t be able to bring any toys with him that he would share his bicycle with him and teach him how to ride.

He said that his sister Catherine would share her “big blue stripy white bunny” with him.

There was one caveat, however.

Alex said his sister’s green lip-gloss penguin was off limits to anything other than smelling it.

“She doesn’t let anyone touch it,” Alex wrote.

Omran’s old brother Ali died of injuries suffered in the bombing, but the rest of his family only suffered minor injuries, according to the The Telegraph.

See a copy of Alex's letter by clicking here.

Photo credit: Screenshot from YouTube.