Specialist David McCorkle - Army Reservist and Someone You Should Know

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Tanker Schreiber sent me this article from the Stars & Stripes about an Army Reservist in Iraq making a difference in the lives of Iraq children. Specialist David McCorkle saw the plight of several children in the town that he was stationed in (supporting the 101st Airborne Division) and set up a web site to help the Iraqi kids.

Army reservist does it for the children
By Kendra Helmer, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, March 1, 2004

SINJAR, Iraq — Spc. David McCorkle noticed the Iraqi boy wearing the same purple shirt every day on the streets of Mosul.

Concerned about why 10-year-old Yahya was selling soda and candy instead of sitting in a classroom, McCorkle started asking questions. He learned that since Yahya’s father had died, he had to drop out of school to support his family.

“It just broke my heart to think that children should have to do that,” said McCorkle, 46, an Army reservist with the 318th Tactical Psychological Operations Company.

McCorkle went to speak to Yahya’s mother. She cried after he said he would support their family if Yahya returned to school.

Changing the lives of one family wasn’t enough for the IBM technical salesman. He couldn’t help but notice other street kids, whose photographs he kept sending home to his wife, Maureen.

“I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s up to something,’ ” Maureen said in a telephone interview from their home in Lone Jack, Mo.

She was right.

You should, as they say all over the blogosphere, read the rest of the story...then visit IraqKids.

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Specialist David McCorkle - Army Reservist and Someone You Should Know

Tanker Schreiber sent me this article from the Stars & Stripes about an Army Reservist in Iraq making a difference in the lives of Iraq children. Specialist David McCorkle saw the plight of several children in the town that he was stationed in (supporting the 101st Airborne Division) and set up a web site to help the Iraqi kids.

Army reservist does it for the children
By Kendra Helmer, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, March 1, 2004

SINJAR, Iraq — Spc. David McCorkle noticed the Iraqi boy wearing the same purple shirt every day on the streets of Mosul.

Concerned about why 10-year-old Yahya was selling soda and candy instead of sitting in a classroom, McCorkle started asking questions. He learned that since Yahya’s father had died, he had to drop out of school to support his family.

“It just broke my heart to think that children should have to do that,” said McCorkle, 46, an Army reservist with the 318th Tactical Psychological Operations Company.

McCorkle went to speak to Yahya’s mother. She cried after he said he would support their family if Yahya returned to school.

Changing the lives of one family wasn’t enough for the IBM technical salesman. He couldn’t help but notice other street kids, whose photographs he kept sending home to his wife, Maureen.

“I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s up to something,’ ” Maureen said in a telephone interview from their home in Lone Jack, Mo.

She was right.

You should, as they say all over the blogosphere, read the rest of the story...then visit IraqKids.

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