Posted on 07/29/2005 7:42:45 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Please support our Hobbit Hole Pocket knives for the troops project.
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Please support our Hobbit Hole Pocket knives for the troops project.
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This is off-topic for my usual pings, but I hope you won't mind... one ping only :~D
Please support our Hobbit Hole Pocket knives for the troops project.
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Pardon the intrusion. Just pinging to a worthy cause.
Please support our Hobbit Hole Pocket knives for the troops project.
How much does it cost to purchase and get one there?
Here's one of the emails from the guys we've sent to:
July 2, 2005 The Hobbit Hole,First I would like to say thank you for the support that you have shown to the Infantry troops. The practicality of the gift packages is by far that of the most sense anything has made to me since Ive been in this country. I wish I could take a picture of every Joes face when they receive your package. I would have to say that, hands down, it is the highlight of their deployment.
I am sure you have heard from quite a few Bravo Company 3-156INF soldiers. My stories are the same as theirs: Weve detained multiple bad guys, kicked in doors, searched lots of houses, been shot at(small arms & sniper), received blasts from IEDs, had RPGs fired at us, killed Iraqis(civilian & terrorists), lost friends on the battlefield, and have friends recovering in hospitals. All of our stories are the same because weve been through it together. When my guys receive their packages from you, it seems as though all the troubles in the world are gone, their faces light up like kids on Christmas Day. It is completely spectacular how you make them feel. And of course like all Infantrymen, they have to show their new toys off to each other, and explain, in detail, how they are going to use it.
Thank you for what you have done for my troops.
More testimonials at the link above!
They normally retail for more than that, but we are getting them at a very good price directly from Camillus.
My post here: The Hobbit Hole speaks to pricing also.
The thread looks nice!
I don't have a pinglist to abuse... ;-) So I'll just stop in now and then and bump it.
God be with you!
BUMP!!!
Take your time, we'll be here...
Thanks for posting this HOTD! I don't hang out at the Hobbit Hole so I wasn't aware of it. I get your doggie pings though!
I'm more than happy to donate to this fine cause and went to the paypal link to donate. Now I have a silly question of which the answer is probably so obvious it's sitting on the end of my nose: What do I put down in the Payment For: section? Knives for soldiers? As a 45 year old woman, I experience brain-freeze now and then, so my apologies for my befuddlement. (o:=
Pay To: donate@the-hobbit-hole.net
Payment For: ?????
Amount:
Shipping & Handling: $0.00USD
And thanks again for doing so much work on this project. Our soldiers deserve it, and then some.
Ah... Since this is the only project that receives funds through that account, it really doesn't matter what is in the subject line, we won't mistakenly send you a gadget from ebay!
But "Knives for Soldiers" works very very well.
And THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Excellence bump.
I just found out by reading some of the letters that the "lives saved" by virtue of a HH-provided knife is now at least FOUR (4) and even that tally was several months ago. It could be more than that especially since the popularity of this program has grown massively in just the last couple of months.
I don't mean to imply that this is some kind of cheap score-keeping device. This is not some "game" but it is the real thing.
I *DO* mean to say that this in NOT merely a chips-and-salsa sort of comfort to our war fighters. Comfort stuff is good and useful, and not to be underestimated. But this program is about putting a tool in the hand of somebody that may well need it in the most desperate of times.
We already know that that this program is not just useful, but life-saving.
If you are somebody that would like to help your soldiers but hasn't yet known how to do it effectively-- THIS is a good way to do it.
Thanks, Ramius!
Here's one of those accounts:
July 6, 2004
Subject: Thank You
I would really like to thank you and yours for the superb knives and scissors, we have given all of the scissors to the medics and they actually loved them I was able to give a pair to Specialist Chin and it was actually on her birthday she was very flattered and thankful.
As for the knives we had a mortar attack at the airport, and one of my Marines grabbed his Combat life saver kit and he was able to use it and his Hobbit Hole knife which he was given that morning in recognition of outstanding performance of duty, he obviously used it in the way you intended because he is being recognized for actually saving a soldier from serious injury and assisting in stabilizing another wounded female soldier.
Coincidentally we looked at the knives and have been giving them out as awards for superior service and I assure you that everyone wants one now! Its like the Army coin thing only cooler!
I hope you know we really appreciate what you are doing for us, It takes true patriotism to stand up for the troops in light of everything else you hear, God Bless you all and God Bless America!
Semper Fidelis
Frank
Col USMC
CO SCP-Baghdad
Dang... A Marine Colonel, no less...
Maybe its just me, but I'd take him at his word. :-)
ecurbh received some cool new pictures today in a email response. He's waiting now for permission to post them. :~D
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