January 16, 2005
Pfc Buonafina and his Game Boy
Pfc. Oscar Buonafina, of Reseda, Calif., from Company C, 215th Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, a driver currently tasked as a chaplains assistant, allows a child at the Salhiya Orphanage to play with his Gameboy, during a Task Force 3-8 Cavalry medical humanitarian assistance mission Dec. 9. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Susan German, 122nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
In addition to fighting the bad guys, American service men and women are involved in nation building and trying to build good relations with those in the countries they are stationed. All too often the MSM is interested only in negative stories.
Perhaps the Department of Defense is only in the positive stories, but that's not a reason to ignore them. Here's an item about the outreach that soldiers from the Task Force 3-8 Cavalry did, "Soldiers Visit Orphanage Bearing Gifts, Medical Aid".
I'd like to resort to two cliches about the picture above: "Pictures don't lie" and "A picture's worth a thousand words."
Our soldiers are not the monsters some like to suppose. And our country's mission is not to subjugate another country. If either of those false thoughts were true, we wouldn't see that picture.
(Credit for the picture to Defenselink, the DoD's website.) Posted by SoccerDad at January 16, 2005 07:53 AM | TrackBack