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.
Anybody have any reasonably good movies with an Hawaiian theme they'd be willing to donate? or know about any?
We have a request for some. I need some titles.
All I can think of is an Elvis Presley movie.
I don't have any myself, but I found a review of Hawaii, starring Max Von Sydow & Julie Andrews. (1966)
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6824685&style=movie&cart=265302986
George Roy Hill's adaptation of James Michener's sprawling epic stars Max von Sydow and Julie Andrews as missionary couple Abner and Jerusha Hale. Following his graduation from divinity school in 1820, the rigid Hale awkwardly asks for the hand of the lovely Jerusha, despite her love for long-absent sea captain Rafer Hoxworth (Richard Harris). To his surprise she accepts, and the pair soon sets sail from Massachusetts, to bring the Lord's word to Hawaii. After a grueling journey, they are fortunate to reach the islands, where they're warmly greeted by Queen Malama (Joycelyne LaGarde). While Jerusha quickly charms the Hawaiian people, the grimly sanctimonious Abner insists that they adopt Christian values by covering their nakedness, renouncing their gods, and abandoning the practice of filial marriage. While the queen herself is unable to accept these strictures, she orders her people to accept them. One day the passionate Captain Hoxworth comes ashore, and although Jerusha still finds herself attracted to him, she refuses to be unfaithful to her husband. The captain is followed by succeeding waves of white men, leaving in their wake more commerce and disease. The film features stunning scenery, excellent acting (particularly on the part of von Sydow, Gene Hackman, John Cullum, and Michael Constantine), and a terrific Elmer Bernstein score.
I think the movie Hawaii may be too serious for a blow out party. That and the Elvis Presley movies (Blue Hawaii, etc. were the only ones I could think of).
Fifty First Dates (2003 - Drew Barrymore, Adam Sandler)
Hawaii (1966 - Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow and Richard Harris)
From Here to Eternity (1953 - Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed)
Blue Hawaii (1961 - Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman and Angela Lansbury)
Pearl Harbor (2001 - Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale)
In Harms Way (1965 - John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tyron and Paula Prentiss)
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992 - Nicholas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Caan)
Hey, you're right.
Fifty First Dates was in Hawaii. I already sent that to a couple bases. In fact, I sent it to the unit that's requesting Hawaiian movies.
And In Harm's Way just came. I ordered it with The High and the Mighty. Both are newly released DVD's of John Wayne movies. But that's about Pearl Harbor, and too serious for a party.
From Here to Eternity is also about Pearl Harbor.
I think Elvis Presley is going to be our best bet, unless someone has some special Hawaiian movies (like the PBS one of Hawaiian music or the one of Hawaiian sunsets at the beach)
I'm doing an experiment tomorrow: 3 packages will be mailed simultaneously - an 8x5x1 Priority Mail box, a 12x15x3 Priority Mail box, and a generic 18x18x16 moving-type box. I'll keep you "posted" (wacka wacka) on the results, which might help with scheduling packages for the holidays.
I called my son in Hawaii, and he recommended the following two movies.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305213283/qid=1124330419/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4043327-3412057?v=glance&s=dvd
Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche
The African Queen meets Swept Away in this sometimes labored romantic comedy by director Ivan Reitman. Fortunately, he cast an old pro in Harrison Ford, as Quinn Harris, a South Seas charter pilot who must ferry New York fashion editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) from one island to another--a hop that falls flat when they fly into a mammoth storm that causes them to crash on a deserted island. The pair resent and resist each other, until they are forced to team up to escape from the island--and some modern pirates who want their heads. If that part of the story is unconvincing, you can always focus on the smoldering comic chemistry between Heche, who displays strong comic instincts, and the ever-reliable Ford. The script is just an excuse for these two flinty characters to strike increasingly romantic sparks off each other, which is always enjoyable to watch. --Marshall Fine
Hey, great!!
Does your husband like Folger's Hazelnut coffee?
I've a donated can here that I'm trying to decide who to send to.
:-)
We've got 50 First Dates covered. It's already there.
My husband couldn't stand 6 Days, 7 Nights (I didn't think it was bad, but he felt the love story was ruined by Anne Heche coming out of the closet just before it was released).
And we have the problematic future movie starring Harrison Ford as a captain at Fallujah whose troops are endangered by Washington (read Bush administration) bungling. I hope it bombs.
Oh shucky darns! See, I don't follow what the celebs do and say. Some of them I know are evil, and I avoid them like the plague. The rest of them, I just kind of avoid them, because I don't know who's who. Is there a list, for people like me who can't keep track?
Lemme see.
At the head of the list are those that make anti-American statements overseas.
Johnny Depp
Sean Penn
Danny Glover
And then there are the ones who don't seem to realize that their statements here weaken our war effort and cost American soldiers lives by encouraging the enemy....or maybe they do.
I'll research this a little more, so I don't do a disservice to anyone who was merely viciously opposing the election of President Bush and making outrageous anti-Repulican party members statements.
There really should be a comprehensive list, with alternate spellings for those of us who can't remember how to spell Sigourney Weaver (did I guess right?).
I like Dennis Quaid movies. They are generally good and decent.
But he's going to play a halfwit American president in his next movie....so, there you have it.
None of them seem to be trustworthy.
Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne are dead.
Glenn Ford is still alive (89).
Didn't Madonna and Brad Pitt also make them?
Sigourney Weaver looks good to me.
Have enjoyed her in Alien--all four. Working Girl. The Year of Living Dangerously. to mention a few.
Please don't tell me she's sending money to terrorists.
Madonna lives in England, so I debated putting her on the list right away. But I don't really know first hand what she's said over there.
Has Brad Pitt made anti-American statements overseas that you can document?
I don't know, but I think I heard something bad about her. I can't remember what it was, but I cringe when I see her.
Well, this isn't the purpose of this thread, so maybe we should move this conversation to another thread.
Ping me if you see one that touches on this subject.
I try not to insult the troops by sending them movies made by those working to get them killed.
It was a while back, might have been reported here at FR.
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