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  • 3rd Brigade Support Battalion supports more than own in Iraq

    11/17/2006 4:11:00 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 245+ views
    Multi-National Forces-Iraq ^ | Spc. Mike Alberts
    KIRKUK — She held back tears explaining why this day meant so much to the more than 2,000 orphans in the Shorish and Chamchamal-Kalar quarters of Kirkuk. “Sadaam Hussein massacred their parents and destroyed their villages,” said Surod, a local national aid worker. “Silly little things that are meaningless to you, like a pencil, mean the world to them,” she said. “No one gives them anything.” Until now. Bud’s Organization for Children’s Rights received over 50 boxes of school supplies, toys, stuffed animals and soccer balls to be distributed to more than 2,000 orphans in and around Kirkuk from the...