Article: U.S. Marine hears baby's birth

If not for an Iraqi sniper's bullet, Lance Cpl. David Carnes would likely not have heard his newborn daughter's first cry from Redlands.

Carnes escaped death by inches, when the round was stopped by his body armor. But the crushing force of the bullet was enough to cause internal bleeding.

The wound was serious enough to take him off patrol duty. So instead of a rifle, he had a phone in his hand when daughter Ashlyn Brooke was born about 5 p.m. Tuesday, Redlands time.

She entered the world at Redlands Community Hospital just days after Carnes called home from Iraq with the good news that he survived an attack near Fallujah.

"He's lucky to be coming home, and he's coming home to a new ...

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