[patriciaruth]

Walmart had a $5 a piece sale on some oldies but goodies movies, so I sent a care package to a new National Police Transition Team unit at Baghdad.

Mailed September 13, 2007, to HHC of NPTT
1 box; insured $97.04, postage $11.00
12 DVD movies:
Air Force One (Harrison Ford)
Along Came a Spider (Morgan Freeman)
City Slickers (Billy Crystal, Jack Palance)
Galaxy Quest (Tim Allen, Tony Shalhoub, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman)
Flight of the Phoenix (Dennis Quaid)
Flight 93
The Man from Snowy River (Tom Burlinson, Kirk Douglas)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart)
My Cousin Vinny (Marisa Tomei, Joe Pesci)
True Lies (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis)
The Tuxedo (Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt)
The Untouchables (Sean Connery, Kevin Costner)
15 Power Bars (peanut, smores, toffee)
15 Magazines/Newspapers:
4 Weekly Standard, Aug 6, July 9, July 16, Sept 13
4 Sports Illustrated: 7/23, 7/30, NFL Preview, August 27
First Freedom Sept 2007
Army July 2007
Decision: Ukraine
4 Washington Times weekly: August 20, Sept 3, Sept 10, Sept 17,

[fanfan]

Good on you Patty.

[Ros42]

Bumparoo!! :^}

[SENClander]

Wow — that’s a lot of movies! I know they’ll love that package.

[maine-iac7]

For Thanksgiving, I’m sending the DVD “Desperate Crossing” and incredible adventure film done by the History Channel last year - the most accurate and complete story I have ever seen done on the Mayfower Pilgrims.

It has a 5 star rating on Amazon - with rave reviews, For Ex: “ this docu-drama is as engulfing and riveting as any full-length period movie I have seen. The lives and times of these early European settlers are authentically portrayed by use of English Shakespearian actors, and the quality shows. Never have I seen any other film put flesh on the bones of the pilgrims to the extent this one does. A social history extravaganza!
The clothing, lighting, effects (especially while on the Mayflower), and, at times, even some of the speech patterns are reflected fairly accurately. I did not see the typical revisionist history so often reflected in many of today’s historical depictions. They were very religious folk bent on keeping their practices, even if they had to cross the ocean to do it, and this movie shows that in no uncertain terms. “

The scenery, the drama, - it’s a rip roaring adventure film with a storyline that just happens to be true,,,to see a video clip see here:

http://www.history.com/marquee.do?marquee_id=52222