Posted on 07/03/2004 5:35:38 PM PDT by patriciaruth
Our troop support group finally found a way to send care packages to our troops in Afghanistan, and I've received a couple letters this week requesting goodies. We're pretty excited about finally making contact, and are inviting others who want to show support to join us.
If you can't afford to contribute money or goods, the troops also really appreciate letters, cards and notes, and request your prayers for their safety and peace of mind.
The first set of care packages and thank you cards and notes that we sent to Afghanistan for the Fourth of July were received with joy and you can read about them on the second half of our last thread, Write a Thank You Note to a Soldier in Iraq this Memorial Day Weekend
We've been collecting goodies and contributions toward the next set of care packages to go to Afghanistan. Our contact there will send them to the troops at the outlying fire bases, and has requested toiletries, movies, paperback books, snacks, and games for them.
Also, there are ongoing requests from a group of soldiers near Kirkuk in Iraq for items for the poor village schools and children in the surrounding area, specifically elementary school supplies and children's toys and crayons 24 to a box are a special project of theirs.
Here's a neat story. My daughter is a cosmotologist. She gives soldiers a hair cut (free) all the time on barracks instead of them going somewhere else. They always give her money because the going rate is $5 per haircut (they give her at least 7-8 dollars per cut, they need a cut about once per week depending on how their hair grows), and she does it right in their rooms. She's been saving up her haircut money, plus tips, and is planing on buying the guys a tv and dvd player. PS, don't tell them...
For everyone's information, 2Jedismom was the hardest working care package sender to our chaplain contacts at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo in 2001 and early 2002.
We sent over 150 movies and over 10,000 pieces of candy and hundreds of candy bars to the 101st Airborne and the 10th Mountain that were successively stationed there.
Both those groups ended up in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I wonder if any of them remember the movies and the Snickers at Camp Bondsteel, or the 218 long silk scarves we sent for those pulling Christmas duty in 2001?
Wonderful story!
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Thank you for this, IP
'Mansions of the Lord'
is now
'The REAGAN Recessional'
forever
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It's her little way and she's a soldier as well, but, it's no sweat for her to give them a buzz cut. (She's really talented at cosmotology (lord knows I paid for it!), but the army had more of a pull than doing blue hairs) She told me she's averaging 10-15 cuts per week. She refuses to spend the soldiers money, wants to give them something in return. (her battalion is heading to Iraq in January)
For many of us familiar with old hymns and "In the Mansions of the Lord", it turned into an emotional singalong.
It may be very dicey there as they go into their first real elections.
I have it playing in the background almost always when I'm freeping. I'm a music fanatic, (played cello in my younger years) and this song is so moving. Remember the candle bearers at the end of the funeral cermony? This was the song. It's well written, it will go down as a classic in music history.
There are several of us in the Houston area who pick up used playing cards from Harrah's in Louisiana to be given to various VA Hospitals around Texas.
We have several hundred decks now which haven't been distributed yet.
If any of your contacts know of a VA Hospital that needs playing cards, let me know, and I'll get them there.
I'll send a small box of them with my next mail to you.
Can you add me to your prayer list? It's probably not until January until she goes. But, I will try to pray for others. Thanks so much. It's all tentative right now, her schedule, you know the military.... I'm going to brag here....
I'm so proud of my daughter, I'm just bursting. I've met many of her new friends, some are in Iraq or Afgansitan, some are in Korea, or Europe... No matter who've I've met, they all are great kids. One just called tonight. His 18th birthday is in 10 days, he just finished basic and Tuesday will start AIT. He's in Oklahom. He's doing good, happy and healthy.
These soldiers protecting our freedom are teenagers and young adults. I'm so proud of them! These are my children.
At anytime, any soldier is welcome to have r&r at my house. This is an open door policy to any military person anywhere. Any soldier is welcome here, anytime.
Talk with you later. Hubby calls.
Bumpity, bump!
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No wonder...
MEL's -PASSION- was Sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-
http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39081
http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com
(Paramount Pictures Website)
http://www.ThePassionoftheChrist.com
(ICON Productions Website)
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WOW .. what a great post
Thanks for sharing with us all
She's thinking maybe January or February. Thanks for caring, definately I'll let you know.
I have and would be happy to send you copies of Office Space, U571, Finding Nemo, Three Kings, and Hunt for Red October. Also, would you like Seasons 5 and 6 of the TV series Stargate SG-1 (both 5-disk sets) and some other movies and TV shows? Just Freepmail me where you want everything sent.
I'll try my best tomorrow to get the other movies you mentioned, but I know for sure I have the ones I've mentioned so far.
What you are doing to coordinate all of this is fantastic. Thank you.
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American Soldiers fighting...
For the Freedom of Others,
Those who train them and...
Those who wait for them...
To come home...
or not...
are...
......HOLY..!!!
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965
(Photos)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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Excellent pics! I have a ton of my kid, I just need a web site. Thanks so much for sharing! I'll get around to the web site soon! I'm such a geek, you'd think I'd have done it by now...
Look at post #4
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