Thank you for posting this. The poor Obbink family, having lost Megan and her dad do tragically, and poor Sgt. Megee.
It's real easy for Guard soldiers to make that kind of personal connexion -- both to the folks at home and to the folks in-country.
I thought what the BC and his Sunday-School teacher wife did was a class act.
And let this be a message to the guys, too -- if you get an "any soldier" letter from a kid, write back. You could be doing a world of good.
In our FOB we had a lot of patriotic scribbles by five and seven year old hanging up all over the place... that, and a letter from Roger Donlon (the first MOH in our regiment, and the first in Vietnam). I dunno what COL (ret) Donlon would think that his was the only letter hanging up that was written by an adult!
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I got a letter when I was in Kuwait. I'm not much of one for writing so I just sent a nice Post Card of the city back and thanked her for remembering soldiers overseas.
Doesn't take much effort and the "Free Mail" instead of a stamp must raise a few eyebrows.
So all you service members out there, if you get one in the mail at least send a short note thanking them.