Saturday, May 29, 2010

Helping Others, Helping Ourselves...

From time to time, Chaplain Raul Maria and I were able to combine our talents... provide some service and help folks out along the way here in Iraq.  The Padre makes for a great dental assistant!


The TCN's are the ones who do the yucky labor on our base working long hours with no breaks, living in terrible conditions lacking the basics like showers and decent bathrooms, etc, and receive horrible pay. Don't even ask about the medical or dental benefits, ok! This is wrong, an absolute travesty and it's the reason Halliburton / KBR reap such high profits. Win fat government contracts and under pay the workers...


Several times a week, Chaplain Maria and I will work on folks like these two Ugandan guards, each time on the DL. As the good father says, "It's the right thing to do, Major Sastre!" And the padre is right!

("sastre" = "tailor" in Spanish)