Good to see you, Patriciaruth. Hope you're feeling better. OK, this is my Valentine card.
For our troops…
Posted on 01/13/2004 4:14:17 PM PST by patriciaruth
With your consent, I will put your name on a Valentine being sent to Baghdad. No charge. A bic pen and a lollypop will be attached as gifts to each Valentine. Also no charge to you.:-) Valentines have NASCAR, Finding Nemo, Spiderman, racing cars, and Lord of the Rings as motifs.
You can
1. use your FReeper name and FreeRepublic.com will be indicated as your address, or
2. FReepmail me with your real name and address including zip code or your real name and email address.
OR
You can
3. write a Valentine message to a soldier here on this thread and I'll print it on Valentine stationery (pink paper with hearts) signing your FReeper name, or
4.FReepmail me with a Valentine message to a soldier, and give your real name and regular address or email address.
Please give consents and write messages by Thursday noon this week
CONTRIBUTIONS can also be sent to me for the Valentine's care package going to our troops in Baghdad. FReepmail me for my address where you can send check, money order or cash. Any amount helps and is appreciated. I can also do PayPal with credit cards, but they take a percentage of those payments.
The Valentine care package going out at the end of this week includes 26 movies, 14 paperback books, 6 decks of cards, 45 sewing needles and 2 spools of thread, 24 notepads of paper (50 ct each), and 500 envelopes, several calendars and magazines, 12 packs of gum, 5 each personal care items: travel size Kleenex, wet wipes, toilet paper, hand sanitizing gel, mouthwash, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, shampoo, shaving cream, disposable razors, Q-tips, deodorant, bandaids, small leatherette bag to carry travel size care items.
Movies are DVD: Gov. Schwarzenegger in Total Recall and The 6th Day, Crichton's Andromeda Strain, Antonio Banderas in Mask of Zorro, Kurt Russell in Stargate, Finding Nemo, Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Star Wars II, Tim Allen in Galaxy Quest, The Matrix, Samuel L. Jackson in Shaft, Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Will Smith in Independence Day, Tom Berenger in Last of the Dogmen, October Sky, Carl Sagan's Contact. VHS movies are Bruce Willis in Die Hard, the Sixth Sense, and Unbreakable; Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Morgan Freeman in Along Came a Spider, Good Will Hunting, Mel Gibson in What Women Want, Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, Casablanca. [Movies previously sent to Baghdad are Die Another Day, Collateral Damage, True Lies, Windtalkers, We Were Soldiers, Lawrence of Arabia, Last of the Mohicans, Return to Me, The Rookie, Antwone Fisher, Shanghai Knights, Tears of the Sun, Sum of All Fears, Panic Room, Ghostbusters, Frequency, Remember the Titans, Forever Young, Predator, Men in Black, The Great Escape.]
Books are Crichton's Timeline, Clancy's Without Remorse and Sum of All Fears, L'Amour's Last of the Breed, Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Double Star, Larry Bond's Red Phoenix, Stephen Horn's Law of Gravity, Don Coldsmith's Runestone, T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Olson Scott Card's Postwatch and Enchantment, Zane Gray's Riders of the Purple Sage. [Books previously sent to Baghdad are Ice Station Zebra, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, Manifold Time, Manifold Space, The Pilgrimage, No Different Flesh, Glory Road, Tunnel in the Sky, Ender's Game, The Virginian.]
Thanks and sorry, I haven't been up to speed lately.
Good to see you, Patriciaruth. Hope you're feeling better. OK, this is my Valentine card.
For our troops…
Thanks for adding some zing to this thread!
Colleen
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