American Forces Press Service
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 22, 2008 – Afghan children are benefiting and thriving thanks to sustained efforts by a U.S. task force and a program that is helping to expand and improve their schools.
A new addition to a Kabul school was opened over the weekend in a ceremony that included Afghan officials, school faculty and U.S. military officials, as well as the local contractors who completed the work.
“This is the greatest day of my life. I feel as though I am the mother of all these children,” said Rabia Abdullah, principal of the Tajwar Sultana Girls School. “We used to teach them in tents, and now we have a school.”
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
Interestingly enough, some of our neighbors are from the Pakistan/Afghanistan NW corner area. The grandparents live with them, and they have several kids. The grandmother makes clothes for the little girl who is a year older than my daughter, and they are just like these. We had a big neighborhood garage sale, and the hand-me-downs were the rage! My daughter (along w every other little girl in town) wanted the dresses and now we have a neighborhood of little princesses running around. It’s beautiful-simply beautiful. Wonderful for the daughters, dads like me, our wives (our budgets), our neighbors and…well, you get the idea.
I just saw that pic and had to share.
Thanks for sharing, Scott. The clothes do look beautiful, like period pieces to our culture. And hand-made by the grandmother. Simply awesome!
Thank you Scott, a touching picture. THere is still hope in the world and here too we are going to win this election and come back to love our country GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Our greatest enemy ,who was going to think so is the dishonest the Main American Media, the same that is not showing this picture to all Americans and make us feel proud of being Americans.
they look so pleased, what child doesn’t wan to have a nice place to learn? they deserve a good school, and the dresses are beautiful. that is awesome scott, have you tried any of the food, i would be curious to see what it is like. very cool.
And this is exactly what MSNBC, CNN and our other network news, as well as, Europe’s news sources do not want anyone to see. The good America’s finest does in other countries.
Which is why so many Americans are seduced by the mantra “change”.
They’ve been fed an unrelenting assault of negativity; a lopsided MSM and Democratic narrative of how “the last 8 years have been the worst policy(s) disaster in American history” and “the world hates us, we took our eyes off the ball with an unnecessary war, 4,000 soldiers have died for nothing, we’ve lost our civil liberties, economy is 100% Republican accountability…”