Soldiers Help Afghan Children, One Backpack at a Time.

[SIMPLYB1980]

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=56242

"KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Oct. 15, 2009 – In a country where fewer than 30 percent of people are considered literate, U.S. forces are working to help in rebuilding Afghanistan’s education system, which has been devastated from 30 years of war, anti-education politics and an unstable government.

U.S. forces are building schools for boys and girls as they attempt to re-establish the education system. The Army’s 649th Regional Support Group here is working with the local community to provide school supplies for teachers and students in Kandahar province.

“There is nothing more rewarding than watching a child learn,” said Iowa native Army 2nd Lt. Shaela Bresnan, Backpacks for Afghanistan program coordinator. “Unfortunately, children here lack the opportunities to educate themselves. Even when they have access to a school that they are able to attend, they do not have the physical resources to get the most out of their education.”"

[SIMPLYB1980]

1. Too much truth for you?

Why do you hate the Afghan Children?

[Flaneur]

4. Are you talking to yourself again? Better check your meds.

[Arkana]

2. I read and recommended...

:hide:

[RetroLounge]

3. Proudly unrec'd

Welcome to VietGhanistan...

You must be too young to remember.

RL

[tuckessee]

5. You're really cranking out the propaganda garbage today.

Is this merely a hobby of yours or do you do it for a living?

[Cerridwen]

6. If I understand you correctly, you agree that the troops should be helping

to provide materials to educate rather than to blow up the children and people in Afghanistan.

I must say, I agree. I especially agree with Afghan Col. Haji Toor Jan.

"When I was a little boy, if someone had given me a pen instead of a gun, this country would be a better place," said Afghan Col. Haji Toor Jan, Afghanistan National Police security commander of civil affairs.

I'm happy to see you're a fellow pacifist.

[SIMPLYB1980]

7. The problem is that it takes guns and troops to do this.

Because Al Queda and the Taliban kill farmers that help the US or want to plant crops other than poppies.

[Cerridwen]

8. So we should have done this years ago before

Al Qaeda and the Taliban were able to take control and grow?

Gee, I wonder why we never thought to send money and resources for the people there rather than sending tanks and guns and targets after it was "too late."