Posted on 03/29/2008 11:24:00 PM PDT by patriciaruth
BUMP for you, Patty, and all of the tremendous people on this thread. (You have FReepmail)
Thank you so much for all that you and the rest of the group do.
I have had the privilege to see our troops open boxes like these and they’re like kids at Christmas and always so appreciative that people back home are thinking of them.
You all are the best!
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!
M&Ms
Jolly Ranchers & Twizzlers
Candy Corn Taffy
Sweet Tart Variety Mix
Nestle's Crunch
Almond Joy
Butterfinger Crisp
Reese's Cream
mathluv mailed out her box of Halloween candy for the base near Kandahar. See post above, #604. Thank you!!
PGalt pledged help with another box and inspired me to send this out to a local Marine in Afghanistan. THANK YOU!
Mailed October 19, 2011, to local Marine in Afghanistan, third box 12x12
third box; insured $85.11, postage $17.95
Books:
All Creatures Great and Small (James Herriot)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (James Herriot)
All Things Wise and Wonderful (James Herriot)
The Lord God Made Them All (James Herriot)
Every Living Thing (James Herriot)
7 bags Halloween candy:
Brach’s Autumn mix
Brach’s mallow pumpkins
Baby Ruths
50 Tootsie Pops
Paydays
Hershey’s with almonds
Hershey’s Cookies and Cream
DVD movie: Without a Paddle (Burt Reynolds)
2 Magazines:
National Geographic on Teenage Brains
Sports Illustrated on The New Money Ball
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Planning is now starting for Christmas. Hot cocoa mix sounds good. A Christmas tree or two sounds good. Decorations sounds good. Any other ideas or volunteers to help?
THANK you, patriciaruth! Thanks to FR’s finest, stepping up for America’s finest. Thanks to families and friends of all who have served, all who are serving, and all who will serve in the future.
(I added a self-imposed $5 late fee to my original amount because I never made it to the post office on Monday. It’s on the way!)
bttt
Hey, all you Halloween survivors! (We had around 350 trick or treaters)
A couple days before Halloween we got this email from the base near Kandahar. Really neat to see how excited the Chaplain was at the bonanza that came in from Airborne, mathluv, JustAmy and JimRob, and from boxes financed in part from jtill, Enterprise, PGalt, and Kitty Mittens.
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Mrs. Patty,
How are you doing? I hope this email finds that you and your family are doing well. So far we are entering month 6 of our deployment and so far things are going very well. It goes without saying that we miss our families very much and with the holiday season approaching things might get a little tough but I know we have a strong group of Soldiers here and we will pull each other through.
Thank you, thank you, thank you... Thank you so much for all of the candy, protein bars, books & magazines, popcorn & snacks, juice and candy again... The Chaplain confirmed today that all boxes have been received!!!
I don’t know how you are able to supply us with so much but we really do appreciate it. I was not there when the chaplain unpacked the boxes but I was amazed by the amount of love (and candy) that your organization was able to provide to us. The Chaplain has a plan to go around our FOB and visit each Soldier and pass out the candy in a reverse of trick or treating event (instead of the Soldiers going door to door the candy it will be brought to them). We will also be using the left over candy during our Holiday card social. The chapel will be set up like a card shop. Our version of a Halmark store. Soldiers will be able to come and pick out Holiday cards for their family. We will play Holiday movies and have coffee, snacks (and now chocolates, my favorite!!!) while the Soldiers pick out cards to be mailed and delivered before the Christmas Deadline.
To answer your question about movie: I spoke to some of our Hispanic Soldiers and they had a few recommendations. Movies, Lambada (Lou Diamond Phillip), Stand and Deliver (Edward James Almos), Honey (Jessica Alba), Tortilla Soup (Hector Elizondo) Like Water for Chocolate, Latin Kings of Comedy, Born In East L.A.. Actors/ Actress Eva Mendez, Jennifer Lopez, George Lopez, Benecio Del Toro. Movies in Spanish are fine with them as well.
I have not found any Native American Soldiers but as soon as I find some I will ask them the same question.
I will email you in the next few days in reference to the Christmas tree/ decorations. I do believe the last unit left the Christmas tree/ decorations for us but I want to check our conex to make sure.
Ma’am you are simply awesome and your organization is making a huge impact on FOB Walton and the lives of our Soldiers/ Civilians. Sometimes we get so caught up in the mission here that we don’t think anyone outside of our families are thinking about us. However with each box that you send I think to myself there is a group of people that remember and appreciate us.
Thank You for all you do...
SSG
Thank you very much, patriciaruth!!
Wonder if he meant La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK2HANwsUWg
God bless our troops!!
WORTH repeating!
You made my day!
(((((Thank you, my Dear Sister in Christ)))))
I’ve ordered La Bamba, Stand and Deliver, Honey, and Latin Kings of Comedy already thanks to contribution from Enterprise.
And thank you! for your continued support with JustAmy of our adopted units.
I think yours was the first box to arrive and it sort of bowled them over!
Muchas gracias!
Awwww....what a sweet message...
Take care of yourself, sweetie!
I’m hoping for 5 or 6 volunteers to send one or two care packages for Christmas to our adopted base at Kandahar or to another one on the Pakistani border.
I have in mind that we would send cocoa (hot chocolate) mix and candy canes. Postage for a 12x12 box would be 12.95.
In the past hot chocolate mix sold for $1 a box of 10 envelopes but this last year I haven’t seen it for less than $1.49. One can get 10 or 12 boxes in a care package, or more, especially if you open some boxes and stuff the envelopes in some of the other boxes.
Candy canes of the regular size come in boxes of 20 or 12 that can only be economically sent from the East Coast where a larger care package box can be filled and mailed at lower postage than elsewhere in the country. For those of you in other parts of the country you can take the canes out of their boxes and put them in your 12x12 box layered between sheets of bubble wrap. And I think you can easily get 8 boxes of 10 into your care package. Boxes of candy canes sell for $1.00 to $1.50 a box.
Or you can put in both cocoa mix and candy canes cushioned with bubble wrap together in one care package.
I have a lot of movies and books already purchased that I am sending, and also going out to get ornaments for a Christmas tree for the base on the Pakistani border. I have put out a request to a faithful donor to buy and mail a tree from the East Coast, and should hear from him by next week if he can manage it.
My local Marine will be leaving Afghanistan in December and not be there for Christmas. Godspeed to him and our deep appreciation for his service.
I hope we can get some volunteers to get these care packages out before Thanksgiving or soon after, and also donations to me to cover the cost of the movies, books and ornaments and postage are always appreciated. I am never too proud to shill for our troops in the war zones.
Please let me know if you can help with Christmas for our troops.
Happy Thanksgiving to All!
Correction: candy canes come in boxes of 10 or 12 not 20 or 12.
I have two or three items purchased and plan to send them wherever you want me to send them. Unless I hear otherwise, I will send them to the same place as I mailed the last boxes.
I will buy some hot chocolate mix and a couple of boxes of candy canes.
I can get 2 or 3 boxes mailed next week.
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