Soldier’s Students Send Shoes

Story and photo by Spc. L.B. Edgar
7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

BAGHDAD — Lt. Col. Robert Colfer, an Army Reservist who teaches history to 9th, 10th and 11th graders at Marblehead High School, of Marblehead, Mass., encouraged his students to get involved in humanitarian aid for children in Iraq.

“Last spring I got in touch with some of my students after driving out in sector and seeing a lot of kids without shoes. I thought that a shoe drive would be a good thing,” said the native of Newbury, Mass. “I already knew a lot of kids who were interested in this type of thing. I contacted them and found some volunteer students who agreed to honcho a shoe-drive effort.”

Colfer, who is an intelligence advisor for the Military Transition Team assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi army Division, said the shoe drive has more than exceeded his expectations.
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(Photo: Iraqi Army Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi army Division unload boxes of shoes at the Hamid Shaban Girl's School in the district of Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Feb. 15. The shoes were sent from Marblehead High School, of Marblehead, Mass., as part of the "Shoes for Iraqis" fundraiser, to a teacher of the school who serves on the 2nd Battalion Military Transition Team.)