Mike Bullian's letter to H. Iad Abed came as a token of gratitude and encouragement, along with more than $500 and several U.S. law enforcement agencies' patches. The letter, money and patches were presented to Abed by Navy Capt. James Schneider, officer in charge of Field Resuscitative Surgical System 3 at Camp Fallujah, Iraq, Aug. 2 at Camp Fallujah's surgical facility. Abed, a 25-year-old police officer from Fallujah, was wounded in the line of duty June 15. Bullian, a recently retired special agent supervisor for the California Department of Justice, collected the donations after learning of Abed's situation.