Support our troops, here is your chance.

KineticKitty

[KineticKitty]

Show your support, Have your e-mail or snail mail letter of support and appreciation HAND DELIVERED to a Service member.

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Here soon, there will be more deployments @ Ft Hood. This doesn't break OPSEC concerns due to the media reporting it everywhere, although I cannot get into the specific name of the division or the battalion that we are supporting just yet. When we can, we will let you know.

One of things I and a few other folks here at Fort Hood will be doing is setting these soldiers up with little care packages for the bus / airplane ride out when they leave.(we are projecting a minimum 200-500 care packages) One of the things we want to include is letters of thanks and appreciation from people whom support our military and want them to know it.

We will be printing out all of these letters and including them into the care packages. And since no one can send letters "to any soldier" without including a specific name due to the anthrax situation that occurred, and safety reasons, we can and will be hand delivering them to soldiers. We plan to do this even after they leave. (thru Platoon Sgt's, 1SG's, etc etc. that we have as contacts) The only downfall would be we are only able to support maybe 2 battalions at this point, and that may just be it. If there is an overwhelming response, I will distribute letters to other Family Readiness Groups thru Army Community Service here on Ft Hood so they can include them with-in their own care packages to the troops they support.

It's easy, all we are asking is this;

*If you would like a service member to know how much they are appreciated, and how much of what they are doing for America is a admirable thing. (etc etc) Write them a letter and let them know. (We welcome long letters if your worried about length, + remember these letters will most likely be read on the bus, or on the plane ride out.)

*If you know any school teachers, churches etc that would like to participate, Please PLEASE give them our address or email soon.

*You do not have to give your address in your letter or even your last name. But if you would like, you may. We will encourage soldiers to write back if they wish, but ultimately it is up to them.

*All emails or letters posted to this thread will be printed out and put into the care packages along with any snail mail letters received. If time and supplies permit, we may even make duplicate copies of every letter so more than one service member can enjoy your letter.

*We will accept snail mail letters, however they must have a return address on the envelope in order for us to accept them. But your letter will be given to the soldier without your address or full name given, unless you actually list it in the letter.

E-mail at; zig_zag_zebra@hotmail.com

Send Snail Mail Here;

Burton / Troop Support

PO Box 5876

Fort Hood, Texas 76544

We are hoping to have a good amount of responses within the first 7 days in order to offer letters within these care packages.

A BIG thank you to everyone in advance.

Please feel free to use your *PING* Lists to alert people whom you feel would be interested in participating. Thank You.

[SAMWolf]

PST Lunch Time Bump.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, snippy, for letting us all know how we can show our support of the men and women shipping out of Fort Hood, Texas.

Click on the pic to see how you can show your support by writing a note.

[KineticKitty]

Thanks for the Ping Kathy.

[Severa]

For those of you interested in mailing our troops that are currently on deployment...
Click here for a listing of all Navy ships and their FPO mailing addresses.

[MsCynic]

Hey Kitty thanks for the heads up on this! I think that it's a great idea. I will have the kids and their friends write some letters to our troops. I really like the thought of telling our troops how grateful we are for the fact that they are protecting our country as they are en route to their destinations. I'll be sure to let them know that I'm damned proud to be an American and that I'm even more proud of the fact that they are defending our great country.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Another way to conact the military PING

Thank You KineticKitty!

[SAMWolf]

Going home Bump!

[Sparta]

Send a thank you letter to a soldier.

If you want on or off the Western Civilization Military History ping list, let me know.

[Soaring Feather]

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[Mudboy Slim]

"Hey, MUD Can Do Clueless Hippy!!"

"Sheeple Gotzta Be FRee"
(To be sung to The Rascals' "People Got To Be Free")

All the World over, it's so easy to see...
Sheeple ev'rywhere just wanna be FRee!
Listen here, listen 'bout Ol' Slick's TYRANNY...
DETHRONE THE TYRANT...Sheeple gotzta be FRee!!

Folks must see-ee...what a lovely, lovely World this could be...
If everyone learned to FReep Slick Willie! Unh hunh...
Seems that he...sold us out, sold our Security!!
Ohh, how can you and me really ever trust Ol' Bubba?!
Now...help me now!!
All the World over, good folks yearn to be FRee...
People in this Country don't need squat from DemFreaks!!
We must now demand it...screw the folks in DeeCee...
People really care...you must believe me!!

"If there's a Man, whose down and needs a helpin' hand...
All it takes is YOU to understand and pull him thru. Ahh ah ah...
Seems to me...we gotta solve it individually...
And I'll do unto you what you do fer me!!"

Buh-uh-uh-ut...
I'll be shoutin' from the Mountains or out to Sea...
Don't you worry 'bout it...Sheeple gotzta be FRee!!
Ask me my opinion...'bout impris'nin Willie...
Folks, Slick's a Vile Bastard, don't deserve to be FRee!!

Get RIGHT on board, now...
Oh, what a feelin'...won'tcha come on and FReep!!
Gonna move some mountains...make'em hear in DeeCee!
All patriots say come on and go see...
Sheeple are awakening...Good Folks, MARCH ON DEECEE!!

See that train over there...
That's the Train of FReedom!!
Slick'll soon take a dive...any minute now...
You know it's been a long...long overdue!
Look Out, US FReepers're comin' right on thru...

Mudboy Slim

3 Posted on 09/02/1999 23:58:33 PDT by Mudboy Slim

Heh heh heh...MUD

[AuntB]

To our fine servicemen and women: You are the best and brightest this country has ever produced. We are with you in thought and prayer and pride every moment. Kick their butts and come home to us as soon as possible!!

We love you!

AuntB in Southern Oregon....if I were 20 years younger I'd be there with you!

[AuntB]

ping

[KineticKitty]

Thank you AuntB and MsCynic

[KineticKitty]

Thank you Sparta & Mudboy Slim.

[AuntB]

I is my pleasure. I just wish I could hug and kiss all of them! Thank you for posting this thread.

[SAMWolf]

Dinner Time Bump

[Texican]

John: I have always felt that I was a MARINE, and never an "ex" or "former" MARINE. However there must be some way of telling the difference between active and non-active MARINES. I only served one hitch in the CORPS, but I will never, ever forget my time in it. There will come a time I think that the world as a whole will pay homage to the MARINE CORPS. As the old saying goes, "They also serve who stand and wait." I am standing and waiting. I carried a flamethrower on Guam, and it got me wounded twice, then a return to the States.

Good evening and the very best to you and yours.

Semper Fi
Tommie

[Dubya]

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[humblegunner]

Big Bump!

[humblegunner]

Seems to me...we gotta solve it individually...
And I'll do unto you what you do fer me!!

Go Mud!