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  • Mail system gets in gear just in time (Hillary's visit holds up the troop's mail)

    12/25/2003 1:42:23 PM PST · by Cannoneer No. 4 · 30 replies · 301+ views
    The News Tribune - Tacoma, WA ^ | December 25th, 2003 | MICHAEL GILBERT
    Mail system gets in gear just in time MICHAEL GILBERT; The News TribuneNEAR DULUIYAH, Iraq - For a while, the running joke at the Stryker base camp was that after U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein, the most elusive item in Iraq was the brigade's mail. Postal delivery has been spotty since the brigade arrived in Kuwait in mid-November. Sharon Armeni of Tacoma says that the importance of mail, both for the sender and the recipient, can't be overestimated. She is the mother of Lt. Damon Armeni of B Company of the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry. "We've made tapes of his...