They had worked so hard, I wasn't going to tell them they couldn't go.

The majority of the money, they raised themselves.

The kids that I take with me are the best kids in the world.

Now, he asks for school supplies, soccer balls and Beanie babies to hand out to the Iraqi children. He is always putting the soldiers or the Iraqi children ahead of himself.

The next time I contacted him I asked him how the fan arrived and was it working, and he told me the fan had arrived in good shape and, yes, it was working.

The other day, I wrote him and asked 'How's the air conditioning? Are you keeping cool when you're off duty?' and he said 'Not so good'.