Quite a story from Afghanistan

[LadyDi381]

My son-in-law was home from Afghanistan for 2 weeks and he told us of many stories from that region. It is amazing what doesn't get in the news.

One story he told I found very interesting. A couple of years ago UNICEF sent 1.5 million dollars to have a medical center built for the people in that region of Afghanistan. Some people from UNCEF came to inspect what was done with that money. He and other soldiers accompanied them to this town and found a mud shack completely empty, no beds, bandages ect, ect.
They found the doctor that was suppose to manage the building of this clinic. He had no answers for what happened to the money but he was driving a brand new Land Rover. They suspected him of giving the money to the Taliban because the doctor lived in a mud shack and had no valuable possesions of any kind other then the car.

Needless to say, The tires were flattened, windows broken out and the car was rendered useless.. The doctor was taken in for questioning.

Diane

[Roel Jansen]

Diane,

First is nice to have him back with Christmas!. As I earlier said I have great admiration for him. They are the really back bone of a world I believe in.
They help people without considering race or religion but just because they are humans. They donate themselves, I only can and do donate money.

But what he tells is know over here we hear those stories more and more often. Big question marks are placed over here by the huge amounts of money and not to forget the exorbitant high salaries of the management of the Charity Institutes. The biggest item about charity funds over here at the moment is about what has happened with all the millions of euros that were collected in this country alone to begin with. To make it short 80 % is still on the accounts of those foundations. Corruption like in Afghanistan is a world wide misery. Only to mention our overseas Caribbean Islands. Money donated to built a road was used to draw the road on the map only. But one I heard a CIA agent say in a documentary two years ago, about the Taliban and Bin laden, say that the CIA trained them and bought weapons for them to fight the Russians and from whom they bought them?
From Russian generals fighting the Taliban. That's why there are so many Russian arms there. Do you know if the Russian people would hear this? And if it became known it probably was called Western propaganda. Did the American people knew this when it happened and if so didn't they, the government officials say it was left journalism? They all never tell us the truth. Fortunately there are a lot people like your son in law out in different parts of the World. They are, to stay in the contest of this month, the Sparkling star in the darkness. We should honor them but above all listen to them, as I believe we can learn more from what they have to say than whatever slick politician from left to right does.
Diane, please pay him my respects and have a merry, merry Christmas!

[SomeSailor]

It is great to hear he made it home during the Holidays Di.

Guys like him are the only reason we can reliably hope to keep celebrating these. I hope he's in good spirits and most importantly knows how proud everyone is of him.

Thank him for us next time you write.

[Go Aweigh2452]

I second that emotion!

[LadyDi381]

Thank you everyone for the good wishes. He is a special guy and we think the world of him. It hasn't been easy for him but he is the kind of soldier who never complains and realizes it is a job he has to do.
Diane