Giggles

Since I've figured out how to embed video, I'm able to give you a couple of more. Next up is a video from a visit to a town outside our area. This town gets almost no notice from anybody, good or bad. It's just a quiet town doing it's own thing, but security there is good, services are getting better, and the townsfolk are very supportive of the government and the Coalition.

We started our visit to a small pre-school where we handed out toys and played with the kids for a few minutes. Some of the children were a little shy.



We then moved on to the Iraqi Police station in town and met with the chief and other officers. A pleasant visit with some guys really fired up about us being there. This little dude demanded to have his picture taken with me. Who am I to refuse?



Next stop was the elementary school. We really had a good time here. The kids were so excited, it took a while for the teachers to settle them down enough to get in line for toys.



After the school, we visited the hospital. And then we left town and stopped at a small compound about two miles out and had lunch with an old gentleman. Not sure who he was, but he was very keen to host a lunch visit with us and told us many stories about the past. One very interesting story was about his grandfather who had worked with the British when they occupied a fort about 500 meters away from his house.

Anyway, lunch was great. Afterwards, the toys came out. Look at the happy expression on this beautiful little girl's face.



Oh, what about the video? I didn't forget. As we were leaving the elementary school, I hollared and waved through the fence for the kids to smile for a photo. Well, they thought I was trying to shake hands or something so the kids up front started grabbing my hand. I started trying to tickle a couple of them and then... well, giggle mayhem!




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