Inspired by prayer, Virginia politician starts errant bedsheet drive for troops in Afghanistan [View all]

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Inspired by prayer, Virginia politician starts errant bedsheet drive for troops in Afghanistan
By Jay Price | McClatchy Foreign Staff
Posted on Monday, June 17, 2013

KABUL, Afghanistan — This spring, a local political candidate in Roanoke, Va., started an appeal for bedsheets to help U.S. MASH units in Afghanistan, which had run short and been forced to put wounded troops on ripped, bloodstained linen, she said.

“Afghanistan MASH units are in GREAT NEED of sheets!” said the Facebook page created to help. “These units treat and house our military service men and women who are wounded in battle and their linens are all but gone! They are using torn, worn and blood and other bodily fluid stained sheets over and over again.”

The story struck a chord with conservative media, and soon RoxAnne Christley’s Operation Bedsheet was on Fox News and Breitbart.com. From there, it spread around the Internet, onto YouTube and blogs.

U.S. military officials in Kabul, though, say no one checked out the story with them. Not only do they have a sheet surplus, there has been no such thing as a MASH unit – mobile Army surgical hospital – for more than seven years.



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