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ANNOUNCEMENT:

MJY1288 made copies of a DVD we got from Afghanistan.

In order to help pay for the care packages that went out to Tal Afar this week and will go out over the next month, I'm offering to send a copy of this wonderful 17 minute DVD with pictures of soldiers in Afghanistan and some special live footage to the next 8 donors.

The unit at Tal Afar has requested boxed TV series, and in addition to 24 and Smallville, we will be sending CSI and Stargate SG-1.

Mailed May 13, 2006, to Tal Afar, 3 boxes
Box 1, insured $68.65, postage $10.40
DVD entertainment:
Boxed set TV series 24, Season 1, 6 disc set (Kiefer Sutherland)
The Great Raid (Benjamin Bratt)
The Man from Snowy River (Tom Burlington)
Total Recall (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone)
Passion of the Christ (Jim Caviezel)
Box 15 Act II microwave popcorn bags (Butter Lover’s)
3 packs 12 Eclipse sugarfree spearmint chicklets

Box 2, insured $71.93, postage $10.40
DVD entertainment:
Boxed set TV series Smallville, Season 1, 5 disc set (Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk)
Gettysburg (Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger)
Coach Carter (Samuel L. Jackson)
Box 8 Nutrigrain cereal bars (mixed berry flavor)
Box 15 Act II microwave popcorn bags (Butter)
2 magazines:
Sports Illustrated with Lance Armstrong cover
Reader’s Digest, June, 2006
2 packs 12 Eclipse sugarfree spearmint chicklets

Box 3, insured $78.67, postage $10.40
DVD entertainment:
Boxed set TV series Smallville, Season 2, 6 disc set (Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk)
Alamo (Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton)
Ransom (Mel Gibson)
Chicken Little (animated Disney comedy)
Box 8 Nutrigrain cereal bars (raspberry flavor)
Box 15 Act II microwave popcorn bags (Movie Theatre Butter)
2 packs 12 Eclipse sugarfree spearmint chicklets

Mailed May 1, 2006, to a MSG at Irbil
1 box, insured $51.00 (value $43.31), postage $10.40
2 plastic 2 lb bottles of Planters peanuts, one dry roasted, one honey roasted
2 canisters 1 lb Planters cashews, halves and pieces
35 small pkgs of JellyBelly jelly beans
2 DVD movies:
March of the Penquins (narrated by Morgan Freeman)
Chicken Little (Disney)—cute and funny