I could not find photos that portray this as well as it was shown on tv. The US flag was huge and covered the entire stack of boxes with the excess hanging down all four sides. The stack looked to be about twenty feet square. Was this necessary? US stamped on the boxes would have been sufficient.
The Lebanese need a ceasefire to stop the bombing and killing.
U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman speaks to the media during a handing over ceremony of the first shipment of humanitarian assistance to Lebanon, for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), inside the U.S. Embassy in Awkar, northern Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. The first shipment of American aid for Lebanon pulled into Beirut port Tuesday and humanitarian groups were pushing more truck convoys of blankets, medicines and flour to tens of thousands of refugees and residents in the war-torn south.
U.S.Embassador Jeffrey D. Feltman, right, greets Andreas Wigger, from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), after a handing over ceremony of the first shipment of humanitarian assistance to Lebanon, inside the U.S. Embassy in Awkar, northern Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 25, 2006.
Personal from the U.S.Embassy remove the U.S. flag after a handing over ceremony of the first shipment of humanitarian assistance to Lebanon, for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), inside the U.S. Embassy in Awkar, northern Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 25, 2006.