Cardinals and GSE donate to Iraq!
10/24/07

A while back, I had made a connection with Colonel Don Bartholomew, Director of Personnel, Multinational Force, in Iraq. He was in the process of gathering Beanie Babies, from donations stateside, to have troops hand out to kids in cars that were stopped at check-points. The kids were obviously fearful of the troops, and passing out beanie babies to the kids were a way to ease their apprehensions. I asked Colonel Don if I could "piggy-back" on that effort with soccer balls. Iraqi kids love soccer and these days there just aren't a whole lot of soccer balls to go around.
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