U.S. Soldier made life better for Iraqi children..

[nhboy]

Soldier tried to make life better for Iraqi children

"David Schultz had a remarkable gift for helping people.

He made others want to help them too. That included helping the children of Iraq he encountered while serving with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division as a First lieutenant.

The fierce fighting in their war-torn homeland has deprived those children of anything approaching a normal life, and Schultz believed he could help them by providing soccer balls, school supplies ... simple childhood staples many American kids might take for granted.

Schultz was a 2000 graduate of Eisenhower High School in Blue Island, and in an October e-mail to his former Spanish teacher, Michelle Alfano, he asked if anyone at Eisenhower "would donate to this cause and just start a box, or a couple of boxes ... to help these children."

"1st Lt. David Schultz was killed in Scania, hit by indirect fire. He was 25 and left a widow, Sabrina, and a son, Logan, whom he had seen just once, on leave over the Christmas holidays."

Soldier tried to make life better for Iraqi children -- chicagotribune.com

 

[Hessian]

More proof

That our soldiers have humanity, kindness, and a desire to help.

This same behavior 63 years ago cooled the hostility of Germans and Japanese despite their previous demonic behavior in massacres, death marches etc.

Go to Fredericksburg...
climb the slope where our boys in Blue fell in piles in Dec 62...
There is one key monument still there near the wall on St Marye's heights:

an Irish lad who scooped up canteens and ran into no man's land to bring water to the dying Union troops. This act by a CSA soldier captured in Bronze still attests to that attitude that makes us distinct in the world. He died about a year later in combat.

Support the Troops, now and always.

 

[chernmax]

It normally only takes one to step forward to make a difference, RIP...