Operation Gratitude Continued

Today our group went to Mrs. Naif's ceramics class first period to inform them about our school wide thanks to soldiers. In fact the word has been growing bigger and greater than anticipated. in fact during Ap Lit., Mrs Clazie passed out some of the papers we had used to write some letters and I wrote another one to a soldier. It's great that we are doing this and tommorrow we'll try going out to more classrooms to raise awareness.

Operation Gratitude

Today during class we went out to other teachers classrooms to present what we had been working on for the past week, which was to get the 1000 letters to soldiers fighting for our country. During lunch some of us where at the booth getting people to send their own apreciations. I'm excited because we have a lot of work left to complete the goal but at the same time we hit the first day starting strong.

Operation Gratitude

Today in groups we discussed how we were going to go about telling other people in classes about this plan we have to send troops "Thank you" letters. Jorge Cortez, Chris Ashmore, and I are going to make it natural and explain what we are trying to do in terms of our goals to get letters from at least 1000 people. Likely there will be a few who won't listen to us but we''ll do our best.

Operation Gratitude

Today I finished up a poster that I was working on in class. The Poster says"Thank them for all that they do!". It was funny because Mrs. Clazie who is very patriotic and has a son in Afghanistan had a poster near her door or a flyer I think and I know the whole operation would probably sit well with her. I will make another poster on monday Since I saw very few up today around school.

Community Service Project

The song I thought about doing has been cancelled due to a busy schedule and a lack of time. I instead have put efforts into finding out what things can be shipped to the U.S. troops. The letters that are sent to troops have to be positive, uplifting, and all about the appreciation to the soldiers who serve the United States.

Casualties in Iraq

http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm

Deborah White-usliberals.about.com

The war in Iraq although not as long fought as the war in Afghanistan has yeilded many casualties and deaths since its start. The stats. show that as much as around 5,000 soldiers have been killed since the commence of the invasion of Iraq. Besides those casualties there have been around 33,000 seriously wounded; casualties range from gunshots to car bombings. The civilain casualties of the Iraqi's dwarfs the damages done against the troops as the estimated list of casualties goes into the 600,000.

The genorosity of countries in the world

http://www.carolsvault.com/statistics-most-generous-countries/

anonymous-carolsvault.com

The donations made by many countries who need help counts up to many millions of dollars. The countries vary by which one gives the most depending on how they are ranked. The United States is one of the most giving countries in terms of the total amount of money they give but however it looks different through a different perspective. In terms of the average amount of money donated per person in the United states would make the country appear a little selfish as the ranking descends to a spot around the 20's.