That's fine. But should some dood's really BIG claim-to-fame be something called Smallville?
I just don't see the attraction...
Posted on 01/21/2006 3:06:06 PM PST by patriciaruth
Welcome to the 2006 thread of the Merry Band of Patriots!
Our grassroots, volunteer group of troop supporters has been sending care packages to servicemen and women in war zones since the summer of 2001 when we began by sending VHS movies and Snickers candy bars to the 101st Airborne and then later the 10th Mountain at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.
This last year we sent a couple hundred care packages to troops at Baghdad, Kirkuk, Mosul and Tal Afar in Iraq, at Bagram in Afghanistan, at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo and to our wounded at Landstuhl Regional Hospital in Germany.
Our specialty in the past has been movies, books, snacks, holiday decorations and some appliances like DVD players and Playstations, and we have sent hundreds of movies to various bases.
This last year we had 6 main projects in addition to the usual care packages:
1. We sent over 80 state-of-the-art Petzl headlamps to our adopted company of Stryker Brigade Combat Team at Mosul and 35 to an MI unit at Kirkuk. This was probably the most appreciated item we've ever sent, thanks to a project that got off the ground due to the work of Spanaway Lori, HannaUSA , and Oatka and 3/4th of which was funded by my optometrist.
2. There was the Personal Care items "Emergency" Airlift to Bagram air base in June and July. (mathluv, nina0113, Coop, JustAmy, airborne, iceskater, Tunehead54, jtill participated.)
3. The 4th of July Party Decorations and Snacks blowout for all our adopted units. (pictures at posts 357, 358, 368 of our 2005 thread)
4. Operation Popcorn in August and September for the Engineers at Baghdad (iceskater, mathluv, SENClander, Coop, Abigail Adams, Ros42, Ican'tbelieve it, jtill and ebay's mshoponline sent over 600 bags of microwave popcorn, while omegatoo's were lost in the shuffle of her evacuating New Orleans prior to the Katrina flooding)
5. The End of Summer Luau for psyops at Baghdad in September and October (MJY1288 mailed off the party things we bought at eBay and Amazon with contributions from fanfan, kattracks, jtill, Just mythoughts, Ros42, Pig Rigger, MJY1288 and Kitty Mittens. Pictures at post 809 of the 2005 thread)
6. Halloween candy and movies for the Troops (kattracks, SENClander, Ican'tbelieveit, Abigail Adams mailed boxes in addition to the ones I sent with donations)
7. The Amazing Christmas and New Years Deluge, when it rained packages at all our adopted bases, especially at Tal Afar.
Special mentions go to Teams captains: mathluv (Engineers Baghdad), Ros42 (psyops Baghdad), CAluvdubya (Tal Afar), Abigail Adams (Stryker at Mosul), VeniVidiVici (MI at Kirkuk), nina0113 (Bagram, Afghanistan). Fairy Godmother Dept. (kattracks), Christmas Trees and Christmas Cards R Us (daybreakcoming), Shipping Dept (MJY1288), DVD Recording Dept (MJY1288), Webhosting and Photoshopping Dept (New Perspective), Daddy Warbucks Dept (my optometrist).
Among the many care packages sent by our troop supporters are these projects.
Boxes of school supplies for Iraqi children were sent by mathluv, Ican'tbelieveit, and my mother to Operation Crayon in Kirkuk.
Some members (CAluvdubya, angelsonmyside, 4integrity, ebay's susiemck) helped fill requests for Western Movies from an MI unit at Kirkuk (now home, movies still there) and Clint Eastwood and Adam Sandler movies from Fox Battery at Kirkuk (now home, movies still there).
bjcintennesse made many dozens of cooling neck scarves and sent them to pysops and Engineers at Baghdad.
DAVEY CROCKETT mailed boxesful of car magazines to a couple units.
A copy of the hardback book about the first year of the Revolutionary War (1776 by David McCullough) was sent to most of our units by DrDeb, iceskater, SwatTeam, and Just a Cowgirl.
Ros42 and mscht adopted a unit at Camp Ramadi for Christmas. (picture at 1195 of the 2005 thread).
CheneyChick and daybreakcoming saw to it that some care packages went to a remnant of our troops still in Kosovo.
Daybreakcoming's sister helped the staffers of the Louisiana legislature send about 8 boxes with around 32 bags of Christmas candy to Tal Afar.
Our many generous donors of checks, cash, money orders, Paypal, shopping cards, phone cards, etc are listed in the Accounting posts in our 2005 thread which can be linked from the post below.
We were surprised and emotional when we received back from our adopted units some of the items pictured below, and a big thank you to jkphoto for taking the pictures and webhosting them.
How about sending your candy canes to Tal Afar?
I'll send you the APO.
Cheers!
Patty
Whatever is most needed. You pick!
How about something for Tal Afar for the moment?
They are still interested in getting big bags of little American brand candy bars, books and magazines and anything else a Marine or soldier would like to see from home.
I'll FReepmail you the APO.
Box 1.
5 boxes nestle's Hot choc mix (8 pkgs. per box), 1 box Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme pies (8 per box), 1 LD Banana Slims (8 per box), 1 box LD Banana Marshmallow pies (6 per box), 2 LD Peanut Butter Wafers (12 per box) 1 pkg Oreo Double Stuff cookies, 1 pkg Chips Ahoy cookies, 1 box Apple Streusel coffee cakes (6 per box), 1 box Yankee Doodles (12 per box), 1 pkg. Dots candy (10 boxes per pkg.), 1 pkg. Butterfinger candy bars (10 per), 1 pkg. Babyruth candy bars (10 per), 1 pkg Three Muskateers candy bars (10 per), 1 pkg. Nestle's Crunch bars (10 per), 1 box plastic bags (100).
Box 2.
5 pkgs. Nissan soup mixes - Chicken, Chic. Veg., Beef, Shrimp, Oriental (6 per pkg.) 1 box LD Choc. Chip Creme pies (8 per box), 2 Hunt's Snack Pack Pudding - Vanilla, Chocolate (12 per box), 1 Nestle's Crunch bars (10 per), 1 Three Muskateers candy bars (10 per), 2 Babyruth candy bars (10 per),1 Butterfinger candy bars (10 per), 1 Twix candy bars (10 per), 1 Mounds candy bars (10 per), 2 Snickers candy bars (10 per), 2 Milky Way candy bars (10 per), 1 Dots candy (10 boxes per)
I'm guessing that those folks are out on assignment. The calendar will be raffled off when they have the next 'homecoming party'. My next box should include more ceegars. There is no doubt - OUR TROOPS ROCK!
Ooooh!
What a great goodie to get from your adopted unit.
I just got some pin-up pictures (of Tom Welling) on eBay for the gals at Kirkuk.
Fully clothed. I probably should have gone for the shirt-less photos. LOL! Guess I'm too much of a prude...
Cheers!
Fantastic care packages!
And the soup sounds so yummy....
I'm going to ask you to put my brother on your prayer list for the next day or so. He's going in hospital tomorrow to get a stent put in one of his coronary arteries.
So, now my older sister and younger brother have beaten me to the coronary cath lab, but guess I'd better go get one in the next few months. So, I'll be saving my pennies for that procedure over the next couple months and relying on donations to send care packages.
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Please see my Freeper Home Page in support of our Freedom-fighting troops:
Just hit 'posted by ALOHA RONNIE'
See also Freeper JLO Home Page
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That's fine. But should some dood's really BIG claim-to-fame be something called Smallville?
I just don't see the attraction...
I assume you're a heterosexual male.
I would hope you wouldn't be attracted to a tall, dark, handsome, sexy 28 year old man.
Libloather doesn't think the man in the pin-ups I got for the gal soldiers at Kirkuk is attractive. It's Tom Welling, who has starred in Warner Brother's network in Smallville (about Superman as a teenager), currently in Season 5 and generally on Thursdays at 8 with reruns on Saturday at 7. Preempted tonight by basketball.
I also bought the first two seasons of Smallville for the gals at Kirkuk, and am looking for donations for seasons 3 and 4.
Here's the link to one of the pin-ups at eBay
Okay, gals in our Merry Band of Patriots, what is your opinion on whether the gals at Kirkuk will enjoy getting this pic?
Libloather sent out a Hooters calendar, and I've sent a lot of stuff guys will enjoy viewing, so felt a bit of equal time for the gals to promote what they are fighting for....LOL!...was in order. Opinions?
But if that's what our ladies in uniform want, give 'em a dozen!! :-)
And best wishes and prayers for you and your brother tomorrow!
Are you kidding...he is so CUTE...of course the girls would like that!!!
I may enlist....LOL
Patriciaruth - I'll keep your brother in my prayers tomorrow!
He was a cipher in the first season, but got his new acting legs under him after that and has been gaining depth in his acting. Any meterosexual that might have been in the writing in the first 2 seasons has been obliterated by his acting choices in Seasons 3 and 4.
He's married, BTW, and is almost 29 years old now.
He puts me in mind of Harrison Ford, who was pretty much a diamond in the rough actor for a while till Steven Spielberg and Peter Weir gave him some good roles and direction. Harrison Ford's face matured late, too.
Tom Welling has also been portraying one of the kids in the two Cheaper by the Dozen movies.
A neat trick as he's 6'3"
Hmmmm... don't tell him I thought he was effeminate. LOL!
He's a hottie but I'm way too old for him. LOL.
I hope everything goes well tomorrow for your brother.
Yeah, mum's the word. Also, he's done a lot of weight lifting the last few years to make the body muscles look like Superman's.
He often acts in his stocking feet so he doesn't tower over the other actors too much.
Ping to self for later...
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