WRITE A THANK YOU NOTE TO A SOLDIER IN IRAQ THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

5-29-04 | patriciaruth

[patriciaruth]

Secret's out. I used my time machine to go to the post office.;-)

[Peach]

Thank you for all your efforts on behalf of our beloved troops.

[asgardshill]

Excellent. Take a bow (hell, take several) for all the hard work you're putting into this. I thank you.

[patriciaruth]

You're sending a huge DVD selection! Take a bow yourself!

And some FReepers are dropping off some goodies at my house this weekend, and MJY1288 has agreed to accept a couple boxes from a FReeper near him, and several others are packing boxes and mailing checks.

Even churchillbuff who is against the war in Iraq is going to pack up some popcorn and movies and take them to an Army recruiter, as he doesn't trust me. LOL!

And Sleepless in Seattle just arrived in the mail, just after I sealed the box to Bagram with a so-so chick flick with Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck. But then Sleepless in Seattle is one of the gold standard chick flicks.

I love it when things are moving like this.

You still haven't told me if you are a shill for the asgard.

[patriciaruth]

For everyone's information, Peach is a premiere writer of troop support letters and cards.

Take a bow, Peach, some of yours were in the manilla envelop to Balad.

[diamond6]

How does one go about sending food to our soldiers? Do we have to our nearest millitary base?

[asgardshill]

As for the DVDs, writing a check doesn't take a lot of work. Coordinating their distribution, shaking the trees for other donations and stuff, keeping up on customs and postal regulations, lugging the stuff down to the post office, and making sure it all goes right is keeping a lot of balls in the air. I repeat - take a bow.

You still haven't told me if you are a shill for the asgard.

That would be the Asgard charge d'affaires for the Mid-Southern Region of the United States of America nation-state, thank you very much ;)

Its cool working for omnipotent beings - you ALWAYS know you're going to get paid.

[patriciaruth]

LOL!

[patriciaruth]

I can accept commercially wrapped food with good shelf like, no pork products, no homebaked goods.

You might get information from an army recruiter in your area, or I can direct you to some other troop support projects if you don't want to get involved with ours.

I have to go now and spend time with my hubby.

Be back much later!

[Mo1]

You've been busy ... thanks for the update

[Peach]

(((Pat)))

It is you who does all the really hard work and it is deeply appreciated by me and especially by the soldiers.

[Give2theTroops]

I would love to get involved and send more care packages to the troops. Please let me know if we can help you out here in Connecticut! Please feel free to visit our website: www.Give2TheTroops.org

God Bless ands much love,
Andi Grant
(wife of Sgt. Brian Grant, USMC).

[noodler]

I have to absolutely love you because you did something good.I and many may be sitting around thinking about appropriate gifts or tapes and You are OUT THERE DOING IT!

[ZOTnot]

I would like to 'adopt' a soldier. However, your post suggests this happened for Memorial Day in May. Is the offer still 'active?'

Also I heard somehow that adopting a soldier for corresponding was no longer possible. Is this true? Allegedly, they had all been 'taken.' If I might still 'adopt' please tell me how to do so.

[patriciaruth]

ping

[thurobred2]

I have many friends that are wishing to send Christmas Cards and pre-paid phone cards to our Troops. They will be forwarding it all to me. Is there an APO address that I can use to forward these to Iraq or Afghanistan by Christmas?

Thank you!
Tari