Posted on 02/19/2005 12:40:42 AM PST by patriciaruth
Time for a new thread!
Our Merry Band of Patriots has seen a psy-ops unit at Bagram, Afghanistan, help educate voters in Afghanistan and come home successfully, while we supported them and special forces in the field by sending over 100 movies and many packages of snacks and toiletries and Hallowe'en candy. A Christmas tree and decorations (Daybreakcoming) and stockings (Ican'tbelieveit) and cards and over 400 candy canes were sent for their follow-on unit, and a box with movies and magazines and misc is just beginning to fill for their next care package. The movies and books we sent previously went into the Special Forces library there.
We've seen Beast Battery at Kirkuk, Iraq, through till their deployment home, sending them over 100 movies and dozens of books and a microwave and DVD/VCR player (from arjay) and many big boxes of snacks. Plus a huge wave of goodies was organized by McLynnan for Christmas in Kirkuk (2 prelit trees, ornaments, Santa suit, many stockings with stuffers, many cards, and a couple thousand candy canes to share out with all the forces there).
We've supported the 411th Engineers at Baghdad in 2004 with about 70 movies and several dozen books, a Playstation 2 and a Nintendo console with a couple dozen games (from asgardshill and ican'tbelieveit), a 4 foot Christmas tree and ornaments and boxes of snacks and many cards and 600 candy canes. In the next couple months we will be bidding them Godspeed as they return to their homebase in Hawaii.
We've sent over 50 movies, a DVD/VCR player (from arjay), and a dozen and a half books to an MI unit near Kirkuk, plus some Christmas decorations and stocking stuffers, and many cards and 156 candy canes. They have mostly left for home now and we just sent a package with more movies to their follow-on unit.
Also we have sent some packages to an Aviation unit at Balad, Iraq and to an Infantry Medics unit, and a small Christmas package each to another AVN unit and an MP unit.
Stryker Infantry company formerly at Fallujah and now at Mosul since November has been the major focus of our care packages these past months. All of Stryker at Mosul has taken fire, and our adopted company has suffered a KIA and some soldiers with severe injuries.
Early on we sent food items (mostly power bars and dried fruit and nuts) then Christmas stockings stuffed with goodies and many cards and 200 candy canes, and since Christmas have begun sending movies. They recently received a DVD/VCR player (from arjay) and with the movies just mailed today their collection will total about 75 movies and a dozen books.
And all this happened because our grassroots volunteer group began forming in the early summer of 2001 to send care packages to Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, when the 101st Airborne and then the 10th Mountain were there.
The contents of packages just mailed will be listed in post below.
email me ,Patricia, and let me know what I can do .....
Thanks a bunch, Mo! You have been a trooper!
If I weren't tied up with my folks now, I'd stay and chat.
We just got an email from MI at Kirkuk, thanking us for the "really nice box" that just came. Our contact will be handing out the items at an upcoming meeting.
This is what was sent.
12 DVD movies:
Shanghai Knights (Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson)
The Rookie (Dennis Quaid)
Lawrence of Arabia (Peter O'Toole)
Glory (Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick)
October Sky
Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson)
Lethal Weapon 1 (Mel Gibson, Danny Glover)
Frequency (Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel)
Airplane! (Leslie Nelson, Lloyd Bridges, Kareem)
Shrek 2 (Mike Myers, Carmen Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Eddie Murphy)
The Right Stuff (Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn)
Troy (Brad Pitt)
3 VHS movies:
The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast, 2 Furious
The Scorpion King (The Rock)
Magazines:
Men's Health
Truckin'
AUSA newspaper
Crossword Puzzle Book and pencil
Filler:
3 packs gum
roasted pistachios and almonds in the shell
Hi, Patty - did you get my letters?
Thanks for all you're doing.
Some came just as I was leaving to go to Texas. I wasn't sure who they were from.
I'll sort it out when I get back later next week.
Finally tracked down your name on the last thread. Wanted to acknowledge that you sent Christmas stockings to our soldiers in Bagram, I think.
I am away from home and don't have my lists with me.
Operation Thin Mint...Sending Girl Scouts cookies to soldiers overseas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1359848/posts
Fountain City WI Soldier Killed in Iraq
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1359849/posts
Package to Stryker at Mosul finally mailed yesterday. Contents in next post.
Anyone who happens to be up, please pray for my father's passing to be eased, as he has such strong pioneer genes that his body is still struggling although he is unconscious now.
To those who have sent checks for the headlamps for Stryker, I am still in Texas. Hoping to hear soon that they arrived.
Mailed to our adopted company of Stryker brigade at Mosul on March 15, postage 10.10, insured for $162.
10 DVD's:
Without a Paddle
50 First Dates
Blue Collar Comedy Tour, The Movie
Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Rides Again
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Predator
Dodgeball
Back to the Future trilogy
4 books:
Shogun (James Clavell)
Sarum (Edward Rutherford)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
The Great Train Robbery (Michael Crichton)
2 Magazines
Four Wheelers
Time Year in Review
2 blank computer discs
3 travel foot powder
7 lemonade drink powder cups
Oh, patriciaruth. I'm so very sorry about your dad and I will pray that he slips easily into God's arms.
I will pray that the Lord will be with you and your parents and comfort you all in your time of need.
If you need me to help you in any way, you only have to ask.You've done so much for my family that I will always be grateful.
May God have mercy on your father and comfort you and your mom in the days to come.
God bless you and your father.
BUMP
I will pray for your father and for strenght for you. Blessings, etabeta
Offering my prayers
patriciaruth, prayers that you father has an easy transition from this world into the arms of his Father.
May God's blessings of strength and peace sustain you and your mother through this trying time.
Comfort our Dear Sister, and All who Love her Dad, Granting unto them a Tangible Sense of Your Love. We Thank You, our Loving Redeemer, for Hearing our Prayers, as we Pray in the Name of His Majesty the King, amen.
I'm sorry to hear about your father. May the Lord watch over him, and comfort him, as well as you and the rest of your family.
Thank you all for your prayers. They helped a great deal, and I am very grateful for them.
My father went to his Savior just before 10 Central Time at home with his wife of 63 years by his side. He was unconcious the whole time he was home from the hospital since yesterday, and I thank the Lord for His mercy.
He will be buried at the National Cemetery near Fort Worth and Arlington, Texas, as he was a WWII vet and a retired Naval Reserve Officer.
Thank you so much for your prayers. They helped a great deal, and were much appreciated.
See post above.
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