{"id":8402,"date":"2009-11-30T22:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T06:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=8402"},"modified":"2009-11-30T23:14:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T07:14:56","slug":"american-airlines-delivers-school-kits-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2009\/11\/american-airlines-delivers-school-kits-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Delivers School Kits To Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/news\/120409_01.shtml\">reported<\/a>, American Airlines (AA) shipped 20 tons of school supplies to Iraq for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationiraqichildren.org\/\">Operation International Children (OIC)<\/a> back in April. The organization, formerly known as Operation Iraqi Children, was co-founded by <I>CSI: New York<\/i> star <b>Gary Sinise<\/b> (Mac Taylor). AA recently helped OIC again by delivering 7,660 school kits and Croc\u2122 shoes to children in Afghanistan during Sinise&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2009\/11\/the-lt-dan-band-visits-troops-for-thanksgiving\/\">trip<\/a> to perform for American troops in honor of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We admire the work that Gary Sinise and his organization have done to help the children in Iraq and Afghanistan,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-18134-San-Diego-Airport-Examiner~y2009m11d29-American-Airlines-supports-actor-Gary-Sinise-with-aid-to-Afghan-Children\">said<\/a> AA&#8217;s Senior Vice President for Domestic Airport Services, <b>Tom Del Valle<\/b>, who accompanied Sinise to Afghanistan. &#8220;It is an honor to participate in this mission and spend time with our troops during the holiday season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously reported, American Airlines (AA) shipped 20 tons of school supplies to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[3017,2925],"class_list":["post-8402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-ny","tag-operation-international-children","tag-sinise"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8413,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions\/8413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}