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.
PICTURES of our soldiers in KIRKUK on post previous to this one. MJY1288 finally got his email spam filter to allow them through so he could post them.
They'll only be up for a couple weeks, so do your looking and saving now, if you want.
Last picture is of some of the soldiers on leave in Qatar, at Chili's.
Thanks!
Mighty bump for patriciaruth and the Troops.
Thanks, Patty!
Ah - it is so good to see them enjoying Chili's. Please tell them they are always in American prayers and close to our hearts.
Thanks to all you people for doing what you do.
Thanks for the ping patriciaruth. You are 'Angels in disguise'!!
You have Freepmail. (And our mutual friend has another letter from Thor).
Mailed to BAGRAM to L***, October 9, 2004, insured 71.59, postage $55.75
1 medium size metal beverage tub (orange with pumpkin face)
98 Ziplock Hallowe'en bags with 17-18 assorted bite size pieces Hallowe'en candy in each, including 9 corn candy, 2 pumpkin corn candy, and various mixes of M&M's plain and peanut, Skittles, almond Kisses, caramel Kisses, Milk Duds, Kitkats, Snickers, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Reese's peanut butter candy, chocolate eyeballs, Hersey bars, Twix, malted milk balls
2 bags Tortilla chips
Mailed to BAGRAM to K***, October 9, 2004, value $56.61, postage $44.15
Food: 2 12 oz. pumpkin, 2-15 oz evaporated milk, 2-15 oz. sliced peaches, 2 15 oz refried beans, 2 pkgs taco mix, 2 jalapeno cheddar dip, 2- 7 oz Mexican salsa, 1 14 oz. chop suey vegetables, 1-spinach, 1-Italian cut beans, 1 Anderson's split pea soup, 1-16 oz Crisco shortening, l lb. long grain rice, 1 lb. spaghetti strands, I Jiffy corn muffin mix, 1 box ranch flavored croutons, 1 box 8 blueberry filled cereal bars, 6 cans Friskies cat food for "Puppy", 1 each small bottles ground ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, 1 small marjoram leaves, 2 bottles vegetable flakes, 4 foils soy sauce, small pkg paper baking cups
Book: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Did you get the Bagram packages ping that just went out?
Our troops in Afghanistan have brought about this historic first election for the President of Afghanistan.
God bless the U.S. Armed Forces!
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!
I'll be interested in your first hand report.
Is this in Montgomery, Alabama, or is that the name of the person commemorated by the concert or is that the name of the concert artist?
I know zero about modern music.
Could you list the 11 Playstation2 games you sent to Bagram.
I am putting some master lists together.
That was Tommy Frank's book American Soldier?
I never heard back from you which DVD's you sent out and which base you sent them to, with the gourmet coffee?
I'm making up a master list, which I'll post sometime this weekend.
Try used videos and CDs from the local rental store. You can get them cheap.
LOL, I was waiting for your master list, I have a bunch of DVD's, I'll send whatever I have that they don't. I also have peanuts, cashews, Coffee, Creamer, Sugar, Sweet-n-Low, and now holloween candy
There is a brigade at Kirkuk, which means somewhere between 1,000 to 2,000 soldiers.
KIRKUK:
VHS movies
Bush talk and Jaye Leno monolog at White House Correspondent's Dinner 5/1/04
VHS tape of President Bush Speech to the Nation on Iraq
VHS recording 2004 Republican Convention Speeches Days 1, 2, and 3
VHS recording 2004 Republican Convention Day 4
VHS recording extended play includes documentary on UN Food for Oil Corruption, Pres.Bush U.N.speech 9/04, Leno, Kerry on Letterman, The Quick Gun (Audie Murphy), Leno, Letterman, La Bamba (Lou Diamond Phillips)
Air Force One (Harrison Ford)
The American President (Michael Douglas, Annette Benning)
Baby Boom (Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard)
Fletch (Chevy Chase)
Grand Canyon (Alfie Woodard, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin
It Runs in the Family (Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas)
The Joy Luck Club
La Bamba (Lou Diamond Phillips)-on an extended play VHS tape TV recording
Men in Black (Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Ordinary People (Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore)
The Quick Gun (Audie Murphy)-on an extended play VHS tape TV recording
Red Dawn (Patrick Swayze)
Remember the Titans (Denzel Washington)
The Unforgiven (Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn)
DVD movies
24--Season 2 of TV series starring Keifer Sutherland
Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Resurrection (Sigourney Weaver quadrilogy)
Along Came a Spider (Morgan Freeman)
Angel and the Badman (John Wayne, Harry Carey, Gail Russell)
Antwone Fisher (Denzel Washington)
Awakenings (Robert de Niro, Robin Williams)
A Beautiful Mind* (Russell Crowe), Beverly Hillbillies TV series 16 episodes
Big Jake (John Wayne)
Black Beauty
Blue Collar Comedy Tour (Jeff Foxworthy)
Bonanza TV episodes
Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
Brian's Song (Billy Dee Williams, James Caen)
Bruce Almighty (Jim Carey)
The Butterfly Effect* (Ashton Kutcher)
Cabin Boy (Chris Elliott)
The Chinese Connection (Bruce Lee)
Chisum (John Wayne)
City Slickers (Billy Crystal, Jack Palance)
Count of Monte Cristo (Jim Caviezel)
Dennis Miller-The Raw Feed (2003)
Die Another Day (Pierce Brosnan, Halle Barry)
Die Hard (Bruce Willis)
Diamonds are Forever (Sean Connery, Jill St. John)
Don't Say a Word (Michael Douglas)
Dr. No (Sean Connery, Ursula Andress)
The Eyes of Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones)
Fifth Element(Bruce Willis)
From Russia with Love (Sean Connery)
Galaxy Quest (Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver)
Gettysburg (Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger)
Ghostbusters (Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Sigourney Weaver)
Gladiator (Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard )
Glory (Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick)
Goldfinger (Sean Connery)
Good Will Hunting (Matt Damon, Robin Williams)
Groundhog Day (Bill Murray, Andie McDowell)
How to Deal* (Mandy Moore)
Independence Day (Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman)
Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark (Harrison Ford, Karen Allen)
Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw)
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Harrison Ford, Sean Connery)
In the Line of Fire (Clint Eastwood, Renee Russo)
John Wayne, 11 B&W 1930's western movies
The Junction Boys (Tom Berenger as Bear Bryant)
The Killing Fields (Hiang Ngor, Sam Waterston)
Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day-Lewis)
Lawrence of Arabia (Peter O'Toole, Alec Guiness, Omar Sharif)
Liar, Liar (Jim Carrey)
Life is Beautiful *(Begnini)
Lonesome Dove
Lord of the Rings--Return of the King
The Mask of Zorro (Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones)
Master and Commander (Russell Crowe)
McLintock! (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara)
Men in Black II (Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones)
A Murder of Crows (Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Berenger)
Moscow on the Hudson (Robin Williams)
Never Say Never Again (Sean Connery, Kim Basinger)
Not Without My Daughter (Sally Field)
On Any Sunday (Steve McQueen)
Open Range (Kevin Costner)
The Others* (Nicole Kidman)
Outlands (Sean Connery)
The Patriot (Mel Gibson)
Patton (George C. Scott)
The Quick and the Dead (Sam Elliott, Kate Capshaw)
The Quiet Man (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara)
Radio (Cuba Gooding, Jr.)
Return to Me (David Duchovny, Minnie Driver)
Rio Bravo (John Wayne, Dean Martin)
Ronald Reagan anthology of speeches, interviews, and documentaries
The Rookie (Dennis Quaid)
Secondhand Lions (Michael Caine)
Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson)
Shane (Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur)
Shanghai Knights (Jackie Chan)
Shanghai Noon (Jackie Chan)
Shogun's Ninja
The Shootist (John Wayne, Lauren Bacall)
Sons of Katie Elder (John Wayne, Dean Martin)
Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones)
Stargate (Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson)
Starship Troopers
Tears of the Sun (Bruce Willis)
There's Something about Mary (Carmen Diaz, Ben Stiller)
Total Recall (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone)
True Lies (Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis)
Thunderball (Sean Connery)
Signs (Mel Gibson)
We Were Soldiers (Mel Gibson)
You Only Live Twice (Sean Connery)
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