Boy Who Asked Obama If He Could Adopt a Syrian Boy as a Brother Got to Visit the White House

Back in August, stomachs all over the world dropped upon seeing the photo of a 5-year-old boy sitting in an ambulance, completely covered in dirt and blood after an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. While we were all undeniably moved by the horrors exposed in this photo, Alex, a 6-year-old boy from Scarsdale, NY, was so upset by the snap of Omran Daqneesh that he wrote a letter to President Obama asking to bring the boy back from Syria to live in his home.

"We will give him a family and he will be our brother," Alex wrote. "Catherine, my little sister, will be collecting butterflies and fireflies for him. In my school, I have a friend from Syria, Omar, and I will introduce him to Omar and we can all play together."

In September, President Obama shared Alex's letter with world leaders who had come together to talk about the refugee crisis, and later shared the video on Facebook, where millions of viewers have been touched by Alex's heartwarming offer.

This 6-year-old boy has a level of compassion and understanding that we can all learn from. "Those are the words of a 6-year-old boy — a young child who has not learned to be cynical or suspicious or fearful of other people because of where they come from, how they look, or how they pray," the president wrote on Facebook. "We should all be more like Alex. Imagine what the world would look like if we were. Imagine the suffering we could ease and the lives we could save."

Read Alex's full letter to the president here, and see a video of his visit with President Obama below.