Posted on 02/19/2005 12:40:42 AM PST by patriciaruth
Time for a new thread!
Our Merry Band of Patriots has seen a psy-ops unit at Bagram, Afghanistan, help educate voters in Afghanistan and come home successfully, while we supported them and special forces in the field by sending over 100 movies and many packages of snacks and toiletries and Hallowe'en candy. A Christmas tree and decorations (Daybreakcoming) and stockings (Ican'tbelieveit) and cards and over 400 candy canes were sent for their follow-on unit, and a box with movies and magazines and misc is just beginning to fill for their next care package. The movies and books we sent previously went into the Special Forces library there.
We've seen Beast Battery at Kirkuk, Iraq, through till their deployment home, sending them over 100 movies and dozens of books and a microwave and DVD/VCR player (from arjay) and many big boxes of snacks. Plus a huge wave of goodies was organized by McLynnan for Christmas in Kirkuk (2 prelit trees, ornaments, Santa suit, many stockings with stuffers, many cards, and a couple thousand candy canes to share out with all the forces there).
We've supported the 411th Engineers at Baghdad in 2004 with about 70 movies and several dozen books, a Playstation 2 and a Nintendo console with a couple dozen games (from asgardshill and ican'tbelieveit), a 4 foot Christmas tree and ornaments and boxes of snacks and many cards and 600 candy canes. In the next couple months we will be bidding them Godspeed as they return to their homebase in Hawaii.
We've sent over 50 movies, a DVD/VCR player (from arjay), and a dozen and a half books to an MI unit near Kirkuk, plus some Christmas decorations and stocking stuffers, and many cards and 156 candy canes. They have mostly left for home now and we just sent a package with more movies to their follow-on unit.
Also we have sent some packages to an Aviation unit at Balad, Iraq and to an Infantry Medics unit, and a small Christmas package each to another AVN unit and an MP unit.
Stryker Infantry company formerly at Fallujah and now at Mosul since November has been the major focus of our care packages these past months. All of Stryker at Mosul has taken fire, and our adopted company has suffered a KIA and some soldiers with severe injuries.
Early on we sent food items (mostly power bars and dried fruit and nuts) then Christmas stockings stuffed with goodies and many cards and 200 candy canes, and since Christmas have begun sending movies. They recently received a DVD/VCR player (from arjay) and with the movies just mailed today their collection will total about 75 movies and a dozen books.
And all this happened because our grassroots volunteer group began forming in the early summer of 2001 to send care packages to Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, when the 101st Airborne and then the 10th Mountain were there.
The contents of packages just mailed will be listed in post below.
Your family is in my prayers, patriciaruth, and I'm glad your dad did not suffer yesterday.
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patriciaruth, My prayers go up for your father and your family. God's comforting hand over your father. Lord, please give this loved one relief. Give him peace in his passing. Take away his fear. Surround him with your angels. Provide his family with comfort and peace. Surround them with your love. In Jesus' precious name. Amen
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patriciaruth, Praying for comfort for his family.
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Prayers sent.
It's good that you can be there and be with your mom.
I'm grieving for you, dear lady. Be comforted by the fact that your dad is free from pain and in the arms of our Saviour.
I'm so sorry for your loss Patty. May your father, and a HERO to our country, rest in peace now, and may God be with you and comfort you and your family.
Rest in peace, brave sailor and dear father.
May God Bless you and give you strength
My deepest sympathies,
Mike
Prayers for your father and family.
Please accept my condolences. I will being keeping you and your family in my prayers.
so sorry for your loss, patriciaruth. Praying for you and your family, may God give you peace and strength. Blessings, etabeta
My condolences to you and your mother. May the Lord bless your dad's soul, give him peace, and comfort his family and friends.
Carolyn
As you all know my father passed away Wedsnesday, and I am hoping one of you might be able to help or know someone who can help with a problem we have run into.
His funeral is arranged for this coming Wednesday, but we are running into red tape trying to arrange his burial at DFW National Cemetery in Arlington, Texas.
My father had Alzheimer's for the last 10 years or more of his 89 year life span, and my mother has a mild case now. We are missing some military papers that would smooth things, specifically his honorable discharge papers and his military ID stating he is retired naval reserve officer.
When they moved here to this retirement facility, I had preserved his certificate of satisfactory service from World War II and a xerox of a letter regarding his retirement from the Naval Reserves and thanking him for his service and a few other things I found, and there is a website that states these are acceptable substitutes. My husband just found an card for the Association of Retired Officers with a member number.
I remember him having a military ID when he'd take us to the Admiral Kidd (Kitt?) Club in San Diego for Sunday brunch, but as he began losing his mind, he lost his wallet with that ID and also squirreled away important papers in one of the thousands of books he had.
The person at the cemetery who schedules the commitment ceremonies is not accepting the papers we have as substitute for his honorable discharge.
My brother has started the process of getting the required papers but they probably won't be sent for some time, and I hate to think of him waiting in cold storage for his burial. Mom had her broken heart set on receiving the flag from his casket at the ceremony.
We will go ahead with the funeral, but not all of us can afford to come back for a commitment ceremony with full honors.
If anyone has any influence anywhere to get a copy of his honorable discharge from the Naval Reserves March of 1950 and retirement from the Retired Naval Reserves (?) in 1954 faxed to us on Monday, please have the kindness to get in touch with me for more particulars.
Thank you all for your condolences and prayers. They have meant a lot to us. He was a wonderful Daddy.
"...If anyone has any influence anywhere to get a copy of his honorable discharge from the Naval Reserves March of 1950 and retirement from the Retired Naval Reserves (?) in 1954 faxed to us on Monday, please have the kindness to get in touch with me for more particulars..."
patriciaruth
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Thanks, Tonk!
Aww Patty, just read about your Dad. You all have been on my mind since you wrote about him but I did not realize it was at this point. I lost my Dad to the effects of "A" in '02 and he went exactly as your Dad did. Hugs of comfort to you, dear lady and God has surely received and blessed your Dad.
My check is waiting at your home and I will send another within the next few days. This is an awesome project you all have going on now.
Your father's greatness lives on through you Patty. Condolences.
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