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From a Staff Sargeant we know, who raced with CCS Southwest before being deployed to Iraq, and who will remain anonymous:

The children of Iraq need our help. They are in desperate need of paper, pencils, pens, and any other school equipment. We have been giving them our own personal equipment to try to help out but we only brought so much. These children are the future of Iraq so we would like to set them up any way possible, and get them used to the idea that Americans are their friends. If you could send just one pencil or a notepad it would help them so much. This country is pretty torn up and Saddam did not really care too much about any of that stuff so we are trying to change it. Please send school supplies c/o:

Lt. Col. Gary Garvey
Expeditionary Group Chaplain
506 AEG/EHC
APO AE 09359

Other than that, things are OK over here. It got pretty crazy where I am at the night we caught Saddam. Most of the Iraqis came out of their houses with AK47s and started shooting in the air. We were dodging bullets for a couple of days. It is sad that for almost a quarter of a century Saddam killed the Iraqi people and when we caught him it was supposed to be over. Well, with all their celebration fire they killed an unofficial (there are probably a lot more but people have either hidden the bodies or buried them) nine Iraqis and injured over 40. So they just did it on their own without him.

We are progressing great over here. Just about a week ago we were chasing around another top 10 guy close to Iran. We have a saying with our aircraft: Why run, you will just die tired?

Well, I hope everyone is doing great. I would hope that some of you could send some school supplies for the children of Iraq. It is for a great cause and I am sure if you were in their boat you would appreciate it greatly.