Operation Shoe Fly

Sgt. Hook is asking for a lil help from the Blogosphere, folks.

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Just about every flight engineer and crew chief has noticed over the course of flying across this place called Afghanistan these past months that a large percentage of the children have no shoes to wear and of course, almost all of the girls are shoeless.

So my esteemed friends of the blogosphere, in the spirit of Chief Wiggles and minding the words of the infamous Steve Miller Band, I announce the beginning of Operation Shoe Fly in an effort to shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet. If you can collect the shoes, used or new, boys' and girls' (age 14 and under), and send them to me, my crewdogs and I will fly them out to the Afghani kids who so desperately need them.

Please send your shoes to:

Operation Shoe Fly
B Co, 214th Aviation Regiment
Bagram, Afghanistan
APO AE 09354-9998

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Seeing as how I don't have any kids, and thus don't have any shoes, it looks like I'm going to have to go buy some from Payless or some store like that. And think about this: Every child who gets a pair of shoes from America may just realise that we're the good guys.

War isn't just won by killing the enemy - it's also won by winning the hearts and minds of people. Something that we take for granted, like shoes, can mean an entire world of difference to someone in Afganistan.