Supplies for Iraq


Last Friday the MCC Chapter of BPA (Business Professional of America) collected items for our troops in Iraq. The collection boxes sat around campus empty for two weeks! I was ashamed that no one on the campus sent anything. Mostly comfort items were asked for so what is the big deal. Show a little support. The sad thing is several of MCC students are in Iraq now and would appriciate some support, and would like to know someone is thinking about them. I shocked the BPA members who came to collected all the stuff I got.

Here is what I sent:

4 decks of Playing Cards ( Gives the Troops something to do)
2 10 pack BIC Shavers
4 Sunscreen Lip, Face and Nose Balm
24 rolls of toilet paper
4 4 pack AA batteries
2 10 packs of ball point pens ( No Paper...go figure )
2 10 packs Tampoons (There are ladies in IRAQ too!)
4 travel size tubes of toothpaste
10 Bars of Soap

And

2 size 4 Soccer Balls Labeled "Give to a Kid"

The Soccer balls are not for the troops. I heard on NPR that a little boy in IRAQ was disappointted because the U.S. supply truck that was carry food, medicine and water, didn't have a soccer ball for him. Here are the all-powerful Americans come to fix evrything and they can't produce a soccer balls form mid air. I'm sure the iraqi kid can't understand all the things that need to be on the first few trucks into his town, but this is important to him. In the large portion of the world Soccer is the ONLY SPORT, the one constant, and it's cheap to play. It takes 8-10 kids to play a decent game of soccer, 22 if tyou have two teams of 11 each. That's 8-22 kids who won't be learning Anti-American slogons, hurling molitav cocktails, being sent to blow themselves up. Maybe these kids will be far enough away from the unrest so they don't get hurt. I really hope the soccer balls get to some kids that can use them.

Courage