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  • More Wheelchairs for Kids in Baghdad (Warning: Tons of Pics)

    04/27/2009 3:23:26 PM PDT · by Texaggie79 · 6 replies · 937+ views
    Texags ^ | 4/27/2009 | B. Blauser
    Over the past three-and-a-half years, I’ve worked to help promote the cause of disabled children in Iraq and their need for suitable pediatric wheelchairs. Throughout this time, various people have stepped in to help raise funds to sponsor 600 children’s ROC wheelchairs and 240 adult Whirlwind Roughrider wheelchairs, the latest of which were distributed in March and April 2009. Chaplain LTC Carl Fisher (great name for a Chaplain!) connected me with CPT Scot Tebo, the Brigade Surgeon for the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division to distribute 200 of the Roughriders in Baghdad’s Sadr City area. Upon...