Posted on 07/03/2004 5:35:38 PM PDT by patriciaruth
Our troop support group finally found a way to send care packages to our troops in Afghanistan, and I've received a couple letters this week requesting goodies. We're pretty excited about finally making contact, and are inviting others who want to show support to join us.
If you can't afford to contribute money or goods, the troops also really appreciate letters, cards and notes, and request your prayers for their safety and peace of mind.
The first set of care packages and thank you cards and notes that we sent to Afghanistan for the Fourth of July were received with joy and you can read about them on the second half of our last thread, Write a Thank You Note to a Soldier in Iraq this Memorial Day Weekend
We've been collecting goodies and contributions toward the next set of care packages to go to Afghanistan. Our contact there will send them to the troops at the outlying fire bases, and has requested toiletries, movies, paperback books, snacks, and games for them.
Also, there are ongoing requests from a group of soldiers near Kirkuk in Iraq for items for the poor village schools and children in the surrounding area, specifically elementary school supplies and children's toys and crayons 24 to a box are a special project of theirs.
bttt
Asking for prayers for Robyn in Bagram hospital with a kidney infection and fever.
Also please say prayers for several soldiers also there who were in a Black Hawk crash and are in bad shape.
Adding them to my prayers.
Offering my prayers
Bump!!
I'm about ready to mail my "goodies" to you! Sorry it's taken me so long to get it together!
Mathluv sent seven 120 minute AT&T phone cards some weeks ago, and I am just getting them squared away. One went to Iraq for a soldier there, and 6 are going out tomorrow in get well prayer cards to a lady who visits Walter Reed regularly as a leader of SoldiersAngels.
I bought 6-60 minutes AT&T phone cards today to put in get well cards that will be going out soon with asgardshill's movies to Bagram and a selection of beef jerkey available here for them to choose preferences. I haven't been able to get word on whether the cards will work in Afghanistan, so I'm just casting bread on the water here, for them to have phone cards in get well cards available to take over to the Bagram hospital when they have wounded or seriously ill there.
This package went out today to BALAD for a couple gals who had requested stationery, stickers and books. One is studying for her Graduate Record Exam. Thanks to norton, mathluv, and Battle Axe for contents.
9 Books: Sarum: a novel of England (Edward Rutherfurd), Russka: a novel of Russia (Rutherfurd), Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean Auel), The Good Earth (Pearl Buck), Dictionary, Winds of War (Herman Wouk), Not without My Daughter (Betty Mahmoody), The Chequer Board (Nevil Shute), The Death and Life of Dith Pran (true story which was basis of movie The Killing Fields)
DVD Movie: The Man from Snowy River
2 big tubes hand/skin cream
Stationery: 2 packs Hallmark sheets/envelops, 1 med. yellow tablet, 8 envelops, 2 pens
Stickers: 4 sheets each of flowers, horses, race cars, kitties, soccer balls, cartoon bugs
Candy: individual 2 each Smores, white Kitkat, M&M's. 1-3 pack of hazel nut choc balls
1 puzzle book
Hi PatriciaRuth
I finally put a package in the mail today. It should get there either tomorrow or Monday. I had planned to get it mailed earlier but the week just slipped away.
Thanks for all you do.
This month has been a slippery one for me, too. I'm just getting back on my feet after a downturn.
Sorry to hear - hope you're feeling better. And I'm pleased that the movies arrived safely - at least that's one copy of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" that will never again threaten another American in THIS country :)
And again, my undying thanks for all you do for the troops in this forum.
bttt
Plan 9 is kitzch. IT's so bad, it's funny, while Without Warning was simply putrid. However, The Thin Red Line sucked big time -- Hollywood liberals playing soldier to funereal music and Deep Thoughts by Jack Handley.
A couple decent action scenes and a decent performance by Jim Caviezel doesn't save this movie; it needs to be put out of its misery.
I vote John Travolta's cameo is even worse than George Clooney's, and anyone who'd promote Sean Penn to Sergeant should have his head examined. Drunken Nick Nolte starts off with assinine voice overs and scary as hell rhetoric, but ends up the sanest one of the bunch. That in itself is scary.
I think I'll send the soldiers a hammer in the shipment this goes over in.
Anybody a fan of this film?
Thanks for the ping and the link
Building another school is GREAT news
bttt
That's its charm. Director Edward Wood was a first-class kookburger (see "Glen or Glenda" on a Google search for more info), and his laissez-faire attitude toward "art" shows in every frame of Plan 9. Watch for the cardboard tombstones in the graveyard being stepped on/crushed by the actors.
Without Warning was simply putrid.
Harumph. Sez you ;)
The Thin Red Line sucked big time
Mea culpa. It was a two-fer with another disk I wanted. And you're right - even Jim Caviezel couldn't save that movie.
I think I'll send the soldiers a hammer in the shipment this goes over in.
If they have access to a microwave oven, tell them to put the disk in there on top of a paper cup and turn it on high for about 3 seconds. (No longer than that or you'll burn out the klystron). The effect is highly reminiscent of the old Star Trek episode "Doomsday Machine" when the transporter malfunctioned.
I'll forgo the "Thor's Hammer" jokes for now. Feel fortunate.
LOL!
ping
box 1
Books: Timeline (Michael Crichton), Teeth of the Tiger (Tom Clancy)
DVD Movie: Signs (Mel Gibson)
Snacks: box 8 pkgs peanut butter crackers, box fudge snackwell cookies, 1 white Kitkat, 1 Smores, 1M&M's
2 lipbalm
4 decks playing cards, 2 boxes of 100 poker chips, 12 green batteries
10 pack of pens, 1 yellow tablet paper med., 8 envelops with 1 Firemen WTC Flag stamp inside each, 6 get well prayer cards with 120 minute phone card and SASE inside.
Box 2:
Books: Last of the Breed (Louis L'Amour), Elective Decisions (Chris Davis), 5 pocket constitutions
DVD movies Master and Commander (Russell Crowe), Open Range (Kevin Costner), Stuck on You (Matt Damon), Airheads, Moscow on the Hudson (Robin Williams)
VHS movie: Men in Black (Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones)
CD: StarWars music
CD album holder
3 Long's lipbalm, 1 plastic soap box with bar Jergens soap
1 pair black socks, 1 flag card with thank you note from a FReeper with SASE Small U.S. flag, Winter holiday stickers
8 packs sugarfree gum
2 more boxes almost ready to go--one of pogie bait and beef jerky for S.F. troops in Afghanistan, and one of movie/book/magazine requests and other goodies for soldiers in Kirkuk.
Should I use a different IPO Addy for this shipment? If so Freepmail me the info :-)
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