Bragging rights between fans of the University of Texas and their rivals
at the University of Oklahoma can be serious business. If the Sooners
defeat the Longhorns on the gridiron, Oklahoma fans will relish the victory
all year long — and vice versa.
A pair of U.S. Air Force officers — including an LDS major —
have utilized the Texas/Oklahoma rivalry to better and bless the lives of
scores of war-weary Afghans, including many children.
Maj. Tobin Griffeth is a lifelong Mormon and a returned
missionary. He began his first military deployment in Afghanistan about six
months ago. Soon after arriving in the country, Griffeth developed
a concern and love for the Afghan people. Many, he saw, had grown up
surrounded by conflict, and most knew disabling poverty. Although he came
from a foreign country and culture and practiced a different religion than
most Afghans, Griffeth began looking for opportunities to find
common ground with the local people.
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