I just got an email tonight from our most recently adopted soldier that the boots we sent arrived today in Iraq.
However, I did write to a couple who didn't respond. So then we adopted a couple more. I didn't send any packages until I made 'contact' with the soldiers by email or letter.
Thanks for all your efforts to support the troops.
JulieRNR21
I still have the hope that my mail and packages were received and enjoyed by the soldiers who got them, even if they didn't write back. My main concern was what happened to the boots!? I never got the receipt back, so either they were lost, stolen or just the return receipt never got back. I hope they were used by one of our soldiers.
I must tell you that there was one soldier I wrote to early last year--never heard anything----months later I got my letter back and stamped on the front of the envelope was the word : Medivac. I was really upset. I did a google search of his name and found a news story about his being wounded and sent home. I think he was paralyzed from the waist down--or something like that.
There was an address to make a donation to a fund for him, so I sent a check there. I learned all about his wife and child, as well as what happened to him, from the news article,(he lived somewhere on the west coast, can't remember where) but could not write to him since I had no other address.
I pray that he is doing well now.