Photo By Master Sgt. Matthew Keeler | Spc. John Romansky, Combat Engineer, 229th Multiple Role Bridge Company, 36th Engineer...... read more read more
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JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq— Excited, smiling children gathered around the back of a white pickup truck, Nov. 6, near the east entry control point at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, to receive a new pair of sandals from Spc. John Romansky, combat engineer with the 299th Multiple Role Bridge Company, 36th Engineering Brigade, and a Rochester, N.Y., native.
More than 500 pairs of sandals were donated by Laura Mayer’s 6th-grade class at Northwood Elementary in Rochester, N.Y., as part of “Operation Flip-Flop”.
“Operation Flip-Flop” began with a conversation on Skype between Romansky and his mother, Pat Romansky, a secretary at the school, talking about a mission he went on where he saw Iraqi children outdoors, barefoot, in the heat of the Mesopotamian summer. His mother’s co-workers overheard the conversation and decided to take some action.
“To us, it’s just a flip-flop, but to them it might be much more,” said Romansky.
Romansky distributed more than 100 pairs of sandals at Iraqi Kids Day, Nov. 6, and the rest will be donated to an Iraqi orphanage by JBB’s Provider Chapel.
| Date Taken: | 11.06.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 11.15.2010 11:05 |
| Story ID: | 60165 |
| Location: | JOINT BASE BALAD, IQ |
| Web Views: | 198 |
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