Tom on AFN.

Check out this short interview with Tom captured by AFN cameras from the day they delivered the shoes to the refugee camp. Operation_Care.wmv (4.1 MB – Windows Media Player file) If you don’t have Windows Media Player, you can download it here. ALSO… The interview was written up on the AFN Website. Read the full [...]

Tom on the radio.

Tom was interviewed on the “United We Roll World Tour” show (interviews with America’s deployed Heroes) last month and talks about Task Force Med, the Iditarod and — near and dear to our hearts — our little shoe project. Check it out! Click here to download the broadcast. (He’s the second person interviewed so if [...]

Shoes delivered to refugee camp.

We had a pre-mission brief the night of 2 December, where we received Intel, went over the security brief, travel plan, etc. Then later that night we loaded pre-sorted boxes of clothes, coats, shoes and school supplies on a large military trailer and in the back of our armored vehicles. Then we met the morning [...]

“It is a society on life support.”

That’s a quote I read regarding Afghanistan today. My sister’s former colleague, the Communications Officer at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon is in the midst of a shoe drive there, and we are very happy to hear it! In the course of our communication, I learned of a professor at Lewis & Clark [...]

Baby is doing great.

One of the injured Afghan women we’ve been caring for and operating on for months was pregnant. Brian Hearn (OB/GYN surgeon) had to deliver her baby via emergency c-section. Baby is doing great — it’s written up with some pictures in a military magazine that you should be able to access online. There’s also an [...]

Boy falls from tree.

There’s many stories to tell, but one we remember from last month is: A young boy who tore his chest open falling from a tree came into the ER with his lung hanging out. We saved his life and he’s now back home herding goats. He’s a 14 y/o boy who was climbing a tree [...]

Zane’s old boots.

Here’s a picture of a 3 year old that got shot in the belly. To think that his new boots mean more than having his life saved from a gunshot wound.  It’s the little things we do that mean so much and it really shouldn’t even be that way.  This picture makes me cry.  Thought [...]