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.
Day late and a dollar short. Feel like I'm forgetting something too (hmmmmm)
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Mailed Dec 2, 2005 to MI at Kirkuk
3 boxes postage $90.00
Many Christmas stockings
2000 pieces of candy (Twizzlers, bubble gum, candy canes, and other hard candy)
Six boxes of Swiss Miss
2 DVD players
Assorted knick-knack toys
Santa hats
Assorted magazines (Pickup, Jeep, Muscle, Florida Sport Fishing, Sport Car and an Orlando Sentinel)
Two bags of AppleCinnamon potpourri
Thanks to Patty for the stockings, toys and Santa hats!
God bless and keep your nephew.
Not really awake bump! ;-)
AMEN!
Great job Patty!! I agree 100% with everyone else, you ARE and angle!! :-)
angle=angel
geeze, sorry about my early morning, not enough coffee yet, spelling! :-O
Thank you!!!!! & Merry Christmas!!!
Awesome work! My sincere thanks and admiration to you and all who participated!
If you send anything perfumed (soap, deodorant, candles) in a box that also includes food, the food becomes inedible due to the fragrances from the soap and deodorant!!!
Please remind everybody to keep food separate from anything perfumed/scented!
I have also been making modified pants, shorts and T-Shirts for Ward 57 (Orthopedics) at Walter Reed. For some, I start with store-bought, but for pants, it's easier to start with fabric and a modified pattern.
I also found a group who are making helmet liners and sending them overseas. Can be knit or crocheted. Makes wearing a helmet a lot more comfy in cold weather as they protect not only the head but also the neck.
If anyone is interested in the sewing or knitting/crocheting projects, please FReepmail and I'll give you the details.
It might be, Patty, that some of your groups might like the helmet liners but they aren't on the list of recipients for this group I found. Maybe we can expand the numbers of those who are getting these much-needed personal items?
If you want to ask, by email, if any of them would appreciate these items, I can certainly start sending to your contacts as well!!
Thank You!!
I totally agree!! An Angel she is!!
I looked at that Christmas tree until I was cross eyed. Actually my eyes were kinda full of water for some reason. I saw what looked like snowflakes and candy canes and icicles.
Don't forget the troops at Walter Reed. The address is
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20307-5001
If someone has already posted this I missed it. Anyway, I have been making Christmas cards with my card maker software and sending them off.
My internet connection has been off and on for the last 24 hours or so. Mostly off.
Yes, she is!
Patty, you will have Freepmail Shortly.
Excellent tip about not sending air freshener items and soaps in the same box with food items.
Also some dried fruits will give off a ripening gas, enough to burst the package they are in. The gas can then permeate and spoil the flavor of any other food items in the same box. One example is whole figs, or large pieces of dried fruits.
Mailed December 10, 2005, to MJY1288,
1 flat rate priority envelop, postage $3.85,
15 lace tree ornaments handmade by lurker SS (MJY1288 is going to take them to Walter Reed next week)
Mailed December 10, 2005, to MI at Kirkuk
1 box, value $24.00, postage $7.70
1 gold and white check fitted sheet for tree skirt
Happy New Years centerpiece (black and gold)
2 packs of 8 Star Wars cups, plus 3 more
8 Star Wars pointed party hats, 3 blue and stars pointed party hats
1 silver and white Happy New Year tiara
6 New Years horns (2 blue, 2 silver, 2 purple confetti)
Happy New Years party banner
4 wire garlands with little silver and gold stars
7 party favors: 5 gold blow outs, 2 parti-checkered blow outs
5 tiny champagne bottles of bubble juice
Words to Auld Lang Syne and the 100th Psalm
DVD recording by MJY1288: Winning Iraq
Mailed December 10, 2005, to Mosul
1 box, value $26.00, postage $7.70
white sheet to use under one of the Christmas trees
Alaskan moose sign tree ornament, reindeer head with Santa hat
2 holiday wire garlands with tiny green, red and blue cutouts.
DVD recording by MJY1288: Winning Iraq
5 packs of 10 New Years party paper plates
2 packs of 20 New Years party napkins
2 packs of 8 New Years party cups
5 little bottles of champagne bottle bubble juice with wand
BUMP!!!! Merry Christmas to you and yours.
:-)
How are you?
Hanging in there, you should be getting something in the mail in a day or so. Thanks for asking.
Wonderful! I'll let you know when it arrives.
I do these packages to divert my mind from the fact that I'm hanging in there.
How do you divert yourself?
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