..Holiday Appeal for Walter Reed Hospital Soldiers - JOE GALLOWAY

JOE GALLOWAY ^ | 11/26/2003 | JOE GALLOWAY

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

A Holiday Greeting from 'WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE and YOUNG' Co-Author JOSEPH GALLOWAY:

Friends:

As we head into the holidays it is time to think of the airplanes which land every night at Andrews AB outside Washington carrying 12 to 15 wounded soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq bound for Walter Reed Army Hospital.

Many are evacuated straight out of the field with no possessions. They need some of the smaller things to make life a little easier.

A list of what is needed and where to send it is attached.

GOD Bless Them.

JOE GALLOWAY

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The American Red Cross at Walter Reed is looking for incidentals/comfort items for sick and wounded Armed Forces Personnel now recuperating at the hospital. When someone stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere is wounded or falls ill, they're immediately evacuated and eventually end up stateside. It takes weeks for their personnnel effects to catch up with them.

Things that the Red Cross is asking for are:

telephone cares of at least 30 minutes / rolling luggage (small), totes, carry-ons / individually wrapped snacks / magazines / notepads, pens / playing cards and games / sweat pants and shirts (all sizes) /

All items should be addressed to:

ATTN: Barbara Green / Walter Reed Army Medical Center / 6900 Georgia Ave, N.W. / Washington, DC 20307-5001 /

Checks should be made out to the American Red Cross.

For more information, call (202) 782-2080 or e-mail Barbara.Green.1@AMEDD.army.mil

NEVER FORGET

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Don't forget to send...

...Telephone ..CARDS.. of at least 30 Minutes...

...OK..?

[sauropod]

Yeppers.

It should also be said that international minutes do not equal US telephone minutes.

Example: I was in Germany a few weeks ago. Before I left, I bought a calling card for 500 minutes at the local wal-mart.

It equated to 83 international minutes.

[VOA]

bump...
and I will be sending cards to some of the folks at Walter Reed...

[VOA]

pardon the short side-bar:

Dear lurkers/posters...Pass The Word!

Dubya DELIVERED the turkey and the morale-injection...time for us to
deliver the goods for the next holiday!!!

Deadline for mailing military carepackages for Christmas delivery is DECEMBER 4TH!

(and we all know in our hearts those Christmas packages MUST be there by/before December 24th...
shhh...don't tell the children...)

For info, see threads at there URLs:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1023324/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003802/posts

[VOA]

bump

[calawah98]

I just got back from Costco, and they have a great deal on prepaid phone cards.
MCI a package of 14 cards, 2 hours each, never loose your minutes, USA only, for $49.99 works out to $3.58 per card.
Also picked up a carton of 9 boxes of paper mate pens, 12 per box, =108 pens, for $7.29.
I hope my delivery person does'nt think that is to much to deal with.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...As then Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE kept telling his Hero Soldiers over and over again in the Valley of Death that was the IA DRANG of November 1965:

.."That's just OUTSTANDING"..!!!

[Endeavor]

HLL, this would be a good Guild project for the holidays.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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[RepublicanHippy]

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[ALOHA RONNIE]

ALERT

...This is a ..'HOLD-OFF'.. Message of Good Holiday Cheer.

...Walter Reed Hospital, and the Red Cross Staff there, are so ...OVERWHELMED... with the items we've been sending into our wounded Hero Soldiers there who are back from Iraq that we've been asked to...

..'HOLD-OFF'..

...sending more in till after the Holidays so's they can catch up with the traffic.

...Please pass this and our Thanks on to all hands...?

WELL DONE, Freepers, WELL DONE

ALERT

[mystery-ak]

LOL...thanks...Freepers, you did good!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[MEG33]

I saw a film about a Cpl. Jackson at Brooks Army medical center,Does any one have info on that Hospital.He was missing both legs below the knee and had a precious young wife helping him with therapy.

[blackie]

Well done FReepers ~ Bump!

[Dolphy]

This is great news, thanks for the ping. We had put together a box with a bunch of us in our office donating. We will now keep the box open and wait until after the Holidays.

[onyx]

A "hold-off alert" --- wow, that is good news. Thanks for the ping, Ronnie.