For everyone's information, 2Jedismom was the hardest working care package sender to our chaplain contacts at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo in 2001 and early 2002.
We sent over 150 movies and over 10,000 pieces of candy and hundreds of candy bars to the 101st Airborne and the 10th Mountain that were successively stationed there.
Both those groups ended up in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I wonder if any of them remember the movies and the Snickers at Camp Bondsteel, or the 218 long silk scarves we sent for those pulling Christmas duty in 2001?
But sis, the lessons I learned from you are what helped me send the 100+ care packages to Kandahar Afghanistan last year for the Hobbit Hole! The Hobbit Hole sent me literally thousands of dollars and never even knew the chaplain's name until he wrote them back.
Then, after our Afghanistan contact came home, I took the lessons I learned from you and passed then on to our new coordinator who had a son-in-law in Iraq...we are still sending to that platoon, even though the SIL is home.
And that's not all! I've trained countless freepers who have freepmailed me...they have a servicemember's address (cousin, nephew, niece), but don't know how to send a package!
Then, I've trained my parents and several of their friends!
The post office where I used to send to was always so tickled to see me coming and were so helpful that I baked them a batch of cookies!
I still send packages...to a friend in Afghanistan. About once a month. My current post office man has two sons serving and he always takes the time to talk to me about them.
I intend to get you something eventually and also continue helping out the Hobbit Hole.
This sounds like it's all about me, but really...it's all about you. Your influence back when we did the Kosovo care packages has had a ripple effect!