[not_apathetic_anymore]

I've never met Marty, but received a first name of one of his soldiers and sent a care package to that person via Marty.

This morning I received an email from that soldier including his first and last name(not marty) thanking me for the care package and letter of support. it came from a "us.army.mil" email address.

I suppose this effort that I participated in to support some local troops could have all been part of some large hoax by some imposter, but I don't think so. The interaction I had seemed legitimate to me. It's your perfect right to be skeptical but, I can only say that my impression is that Marty is for real.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Thanks. I REALLY appreciate this information. It appears I owe marty an apology.

We were all burned a while back by a person named Bogdan here at FR. He claimed to have a brother in Iraq. This man did troop reports (much like this one).

The final blow came when one day he told this forum that his wife died in a car crash. We were all devastated.

One on the ball FReeper called the right people and did some checking and found out no such woman had died.

Something like three weeks later, This Bogdan fellow called a fellow FReeper, to say he was taking his wife back to Russia or some such place. It was really bizarre.

So this post was really similar. First hand accounts. Blow by blow reporting. I admit, while reading marty's past posts and seeing his writing style change, I had some pretty severe flashbacks of a time when we were all snookered. I thought it was happening again.

Spanaway Lori says she has his APO address and writes him.

You state you have sent stuff to a fellow troop and received a response. So I owe an apology.

marty, consider this my apology for doubting you.

I hope the forum accepts it too.

FRegards