Thursday
Iraq War Success: The Children
Excerpts from http://www.operationiraqichildren.org/
American soldiers passing through Iraqi villages were horrified at the squalor of Iraqi schools, which had been severely neglected under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.
[Children were] corralled in sweltering one-room buildings without air conditioning, fans, windows, solid floors, or even toilets.
Libraries and books are almost nonexistent. "Imagine sending your child to a school in which there are virtually no books, no pencils, no paper, no blackboards".
Soldiers gather supplies sent by family members, friends, and various groups and take them to villages, sometimes coming under fire as they work to reconstruct the schools and deliver learning tools to Iraqi kids.
"I have seen Iraqi kids climbing on our soldiers and hugging them and kissing them".
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