Posted on 11/25/2001 1:16:02 PM PST by patriciaruth
FReepers! I need emails to send to our troops with the Christmas presents that are being mailed out this week to the 101st AIRBORNE. We have 200 plus presents, but only about a third of them so far have a personal message to go with them to show the troops that we care about them and are grateful for their sacrifices for our country and for putting their lives on the line for our freedom.
PLEASE FReepMail me or send an email to my personal email (below) a Dear Soldier note for the Holidays! Do it today, so I can print them out and put them in the box tomorrow.
AND if anyone could also contribute toward purchasing one or more scarves, or contribute toward the postage, just FReepmail me for my snail mail address or use www.paypal.com and pay by credit card using my personal email address (below).
So far, ABOUT 1/3 of the 200 scarves are bought or pledged, and I would like to put someone else's name, not mine on at least some of the 130 scarves yet to be adopted and given to a serviceman pulling duty on Christmas at an observation post or wherever they may be now that the 101st Airborne has been moved. Guess where? In fact, the news is reporting our troops are landing near Kandahar now.
Contributors so far are:
Audrey --7
Kathy -13
Shirley --8
Deanne --7
Lorraine --2
Lida --2
Kay--9
Sheila --2
Lynette--8
Jacqueline--2
Isabelle--5
Kim--1
Mike--unknown coming
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Email messages sent so far for the troops:
Carrie; Margaret; family in High Ridge, MO; Ruth in Visalia, CA; Laura
Cards coming: Gretchen; "Cool Guy" Christmas scarves URL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/571233/posts Kosovo Care Package URL http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3bd55aeb7d48.htm
On behalf of the soldiers, THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU patriciaruth for all your hard work!
Fast work, y'all!
around $800
I got the chills reading your posts! What a great group of people we have at FR! I'm pinging Jim just because he ought to know about this!
Thanks,
TC
Great! That is good news. :-)
BTW, I received a nice thank you from the Chaplain at Task Force Falcon today. It's nice to know that they received my package.
Of course, that is if everyone comes through on their pledges.
It started up at 225, so those FReepers coming through with their late pledges for a little here and a little there are really helping you out!:-D
And I still have one big pledge out that I am not sure about because I think she is a lurker and I haven't heard from her since her pledge. BUT, she sounded like an upstanding lady, so I think she is probably just busy.
We are going to be real excited and anxious here till we hear back about the big box. And that won't be till after Christmas as that is when the commander in the field is going to pass out our packages with the black silk scarves, except for Mountaingirl's scarves will be dark brown silk as she bought that silk herself.
I've got to go and print out some last minute holiday messages for the troops.
Your message will be printed out and put in a box going to a camp overseas to the 101st Airborne. No charge.
If you FReepmail me your message by Private Reply, please consider putting your hometown and state in the message as that means a lot to the soldiers. If you wish privacy but want to send a note, just use your FReepname at FreeRepublic.com. Many people have put their email addresses or even their snail mail addresses for the soldier.
You can also email me a message at
arthingvold@ocsnet.net
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