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Ros42, mathluv, SENClander, deadhead, and airborne have all sent Halloween care packages to Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Contents are posted above. They have already started arriving and here is an email we just received from our contact.

:-)

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Thank you for the Haloween gear. It’s my favorite holiday, as well as some other people’s. We’ve had a blast putting up the decorations.

As far as the Christams tree, I believe we have it in storage right now. It was up when we got here, but my unit [won’t be here for Christmas] I’ll start asking the new team what they’d like as well as get you another point of cntact for the next year.

Your support has been fantastic and the care packages have given every one a smile. We’d like to thank you for your dedication and hard work. Without your support, we would have had a really hard year, so thank you!

p.s. I’ll send yousome pictures of the Haloween decor as soon as my camera decides to work!

Email from FOB Falcon near Baghdad!
Sent: 10/22/08
Subject: Re: Happy Monday Holiday
Patty,

Sorry about not emailing sooner. It has been a brutal couple of months. We assumed responsibility for another Iraqi battalion and our operational tempo pretty much doubled. We’ve also moved a couple of times since I last emailed you and we are in the process of moving again. We just found out that we are assuming responsibility for the entire brigade. Lots of changes for us.

We also had a couple of guys get hurt recently in an IED blast. Fortunately, none of the wounds were serious and after some treatment they are back with us again. The Iraqis, with US support, conducted a series of operations and we think we caught some of the bastards that did this. I honestly haven’t heard anything about a helicopter crash. Our world view is pretty narrow some of the times and mostly focused on what is going on in the immediate area.

I find for the most part that we enjoy comedies. Some guys are into horror, but not the majority.

I find that I can’t really look at any movies about the current conflicts for much the same reason. You definately get a sense that Hollywood is anti-war/military/American and is trying to disseminate that theme to audiences. I also don’t think I’ll be reading any history books on this conflict until years afterwards. Writers of books and screenplays tend to lack objectivity and analysis of current actions won’t yield anything of value until the ramifications of said actions mature to fruition.

Anthing you send will be much appreciated, Patty.

Thanks for your thoughts and support,

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Mailed October 25, 2008, to NPTT unit near Baghdad, with donations from jtill and manna
1 box 12x12,Postage $13.55, insured (value $177.05)
1 TV series boxed DVD set:
Smallville, Season 7
8 bags Halloween candy:
creepy eyeballs
Hershey’s special dark
Snickers dark
Reese’s peanut butter cups
2 bags Brach’s pumpkins and corn candy
Hershey’s kisses with caramel
Milky Way dark
7 DVD movies:
Jackie Robinson Story (Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Babe Ruth)
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne)
Men in Black (Tommy Lee Jones)
Men in Black II (Will Smith)
Pride of the Yankees (Gary Cooper)
The Rookie (Dennis Quaid)
Shane (Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur)
2 books:
Radical Son (David Horowitz)
An Incomplete Education (a guide to liberal elitism literature and culture)

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With donations from Enterprise and jtill I have ordered the following comedies
The Wedding Singer
Something about Mary
Dodgeball
Ghostbusters
Naked Gun
Airplane!
Groundhog Day
Mickey Blue Eyes
Maverick
Gods Must Be Crazy
Crocodile Dundee
Moscow on the Hudson
Back to the Future trilogy
Silver Streak
Hitch
Parenthood
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation
The Santa Clause
and also these movies:
Frequency
Outland
Unbreakable

We’ve already sent them some comedies like Galaxy Quest, Shanghai Knights, City Slickers, My Cousin Vinny, and in the box above is Men in Black and MIBII, as well as Scrubs TV series 1-4.

Any other suggestions for comedies or fun movies would be appreciated