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The letters from Afghanistan with requests will be in the posts to follow, as will be lists of what has already been collected or has already gone.

1 posted on 07/03/2004 5:35:40 PM PDT by patriciaruth

To: RedWing9; MJY1288; esther2; Left_Coast_Conservative; lonestargal; lonestar; zgirl; 2Jedismom; ...

A lot of you on the ping list have already contributed, so drag some of your friends over to this thread to write letters or contribute money or goodies.

I'm getting my paypal account set up again next week for those who want to do this by credit card.

2 posted on 07/03/2004 5:39:35 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)

To: patriciaruth

Also, don't forget:

http://www.soldiersangels.com

3 posted on 07/03/2004 5:40:33 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Fabrizio Quattrocchi: "Adesso vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano")

To: patriciaruth

Thanks for asking. Where does a person send a care package, letters, calling cards, money?

23 posted on 07/03/2004 6:20:08 PM PDT by AIC

To: patriciaruth

26 posted on 07/03/2004 6:34:12 PM PDT by VOA

To: patriciaruth

Keep me on your list.

I don't have a lot to contribute but I'll do what i can.

38 posted on 07/04/2004 5:05:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)

39 posted on 07/04/2004 10:13:35 AM PDT by dstarr (Proud wife of a Vietnam War and Korean War veteran)

To: Doctor Notes; Monterrosa-24; jamesnwu; GunnyHartman; ktw; Wyler Redstone; bad company; Jaxter; ...

Ping for a good cause! Write a thank you note for our troops in Afghanistan this Fourth of July weekend and/or contribute to care packages.

One time ping. I'll try not to ping again anyone who doesn't respond.

42 posted on 07/04/2004 2:13:01 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)

To: patriciaruth

Our family would be honored to send a care package to one of our soldiers.

54 posted on 07/04/2004 5:48:54 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)

To: patriciaruth

Thanks for your work. Please keep pinging me and send me your address so that I can send you some items.

60 posted on 07/05/2004 5:23:32 AM PDT by PGalt

To: patriciaruth

We have been sponsoring three units, two in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. I talked my company into paying the freight (All three units have former employees in them). We started in April and have sent over 86 boxes so far. My basement has enough stuff to send at least 30 more. Most of this stuff was donated to the cause by good people. There are a lot of people who want to help but you have to get the word out to accomplish that.

Here is what we did.

1. We internet searched for hotels and motels in the area. Copied the address information into Word and set up a mail merge to send them letters asking for donations. Results: 3,000 bottles of hand lotion, thousands of bars of soap, and hundreds of razors.

2. Ditto same approach but to dentists in the area. Results: over a thousand tubes of toothpaste, hundreds of toothbrushes, and hundreds of floss containers. Items were mainly small trial sizes (except toothbrushes) which fit nicely into their packs.

3. New posters in plant every few weeks. Reminding people and even assigning what people should bring based on which department they are in.

3. The big one!!!!

My company wanted to attract attention to their new showroom in Milwaukee. We piggy-backed a "Support Our Troops" event into their grand opening. They used the "Support Our Troops" theme in their advertising all week. On the day of the event (God blessed us with perfect weather) the company hired a popular local radio talk show host to do four call-ins to the station for 1 minute talks. I had previously contacted the three units' commanders and arranged for some of their people to call the radio station on their unit sat phones. I had them call two minutes before our radio personality went on the air (This was all prearranged with the radio station.) The radio station engineer put the guys overseas on the air with our talk show personality. The talk show personality would talk to the guys, ask them how things were, and then ask them what they needed. The one minute spots stretched into 3-5 minutes and the radio producer loved it. Did not even try to charge more or cut it back to 1 minute. Whatever the GI asked for would start showing up about 15 minutes later. Somebody said they needed underwear and packages straight from the store would show up. Packages with $18 price tags.

Results: Over 1,000 pounds of stuff and $550 in cash donations.

I can't do the URL thing but you can get more info at www.theliechtys.com

67 posted on 07/05/2004 4:16:04 PM PDT by american_ranger

To: patriciaruth

69 posted on 07/05/2004 5:40:27 PM PDT by VOA

100 posted on 07/05/2004 9:47:48 PM PDT by bellas_sister (" Senator, do you know there's a girl found dead in your car?")

To: patriciaruth

I just received a thankyou letter from a FOB in Iraq...been doing this for a while now. I am in the middle of a flag exchange with the NCO of a powerplant shop for helo's...

Later

MD

113 posted on 07/06/2004 3:02:53 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976

To: patriciaruth

163 posted on 07/16/2004 4:49:54 PM PDT by Dante3

To: patriciaruth

Bump....

My Church is putting stuff together.

203 posted on 08/02/2004 8:40:46 PM PDT by The Mayor (We have all eternity to praise God—begin today.)

To: patriciaruth

Could you send me the address to the base near Kirkuk in Iraq, I have some school supplies to send over.

225 posted on 08/04/2004 6:49:20 PM PDT by Aquamarine

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261 posted on 08/10/2004 10:16:21 PM PDT by summer

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281 posted on 08/13/2004 3:22:49 AM PDT by Dante3

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290 posted on 08/21/2004 12:43:31 PM PDT by Dante3

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294 posted on 08/22/2004 6:12:34 PM PDT by Dante3

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