HAPPY STORY: Daughter of Rangely soldier gladly gives doll to war victim

Melanie Pratt is not angry that her father gave away her Happy.
When Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt was deployed to Afghanistan nearly four months ago, he promised to bring Happy the teddy bear back home to Melanie, his eldest.
Plans changed.
On Thanksgiving, Pratt met an Afghan girl with calloused feet, mud-caked hands and a white bandage wrapped around her head.
The Afghan child and her father came to the American military base for a…