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Mailed August 10, 2004, 1 box to Kirkuk, postage $34.70 insured for $324.00 (postage and some contents paid by jtill)
4 books from etabeta:Executive Orders (Tom Clancy)
The Jansun Directive (Robert Ludlum)
The Prometheus Deception, a Robert Ludlum book
The Sigma Protocol (Robert Ludlum)
and a book from writer33, Elective Decisions
2 VHS movies from JustAmy: A Man Apart (Vin Diesil) and About Schmidt (Jack Nicholson)
15 DVD movies from asgardshill:
Diamonds are Forever (Sean Connery, Jill St. John)
Dr. No (Sean Connery, Ursula Andress)
From Russia with Love (Sean Connery)
Goldfinger (Sean Connery)
Never Say Never Again (Sean Connery, Kim Basinger)
Thunderball (Sean Connery)
You Only Live Twice (Sean Connery)
Big Jake (John Wayne)
McLintock! (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara)
The Quiet Man (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara)
The Shootist (John Wayne, Lauren Bacall)
The Sons of Katie Elder (John Wayne, Dean Martin)
Indiana Jones trilogy: Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade (Harrison Ford)
6 DVD TV series from patriciaruth: Fox series 24, Season 2, with Keifer Sutherland
toiletries: bag of 6 razors (etabeta), 4.3 oz therapeutic skin cream (Battle Axe), plastic soap box with 1 bar soap, 5 Kleenex, and 1 large can foot powder (patriciaruth)
games: 2 decks cards, large puzzle magazine, 1 nerf football (etabeta)
snacks: 2 can of 6 cups lemonade mix (Mrs. Diamondhead)
magazines: National Geographic on Mars, Army, AUSA, Reagan calendar

Correcting error in post above, mathluv sent the games and razors in the box shipment posted just above.

Letter from BALAD!

Patty,
...I received your letter from B****..she is my platoon sgt. I am 24 yrs old and my hometown is *****, Illinois--a small town of about 3,000 and one blinking light! We have a lot of corn fields -- which I never thought I would miss, but I do!

I recetly graduated from **** with a B.S. in Social Science Education. After teaching for a year or so, I am going to get my Masters but I don't know what in yet! I started studying for the GRE [Graduate Record Exam] before we were deployed. I recently enrolled in a correspondence course to take while I am over here!

***Have you always lived in California? I have never been to the west coast, but everyone that I know that has, tells me I have to go!

I have a lot of pictures from over here if you would like to see them. I can send them to you through an email link if you'd like. We don't really need to much here. The only thing my roommate C***** and I could think of would be stationary and stickers.

We also read a lot! Anything you'd like to send would be nice -- we are not picky! there is a list of books that we have.

Thank you so much for your support. Hope to hear from you soon.

P*****

Books available: Queen Noor, Case for Christ, Why I'm Like This, The Da Vinci Code, Cold Case, Death Row, The Guardian, The Notebook, Blindsight, Betrayed, The Red Tent, Hostile Witness, Unveiling Islam, The Inextinguishable Symphony, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

NOTE: I've ordered these books for her -- Sarum (Rutherfurd), Russka (Rutherfurd), Winds of War (Wouk), Clan of the Cave Bear (Auel), The Chequer Board (Shute) and will put in some of the ones that JustAmy and etabeta sent.