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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
*******
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
If you're a FReeper please help out over here! Take a couple of minutes, write a few lines, send a prayer. Our guy's are in harm's way - you owe'em a line or two.
TH54
I doubt the ALL thing is still active so please ping a friend or twenty. Thanks.
Holiday FReepmail Messages for our Troops Needed!
I'm at post #20 - my suggestion is to just post to this thread for simplicity. Once the thread is loaded Ruth can just cut and paste instead of opening individual FReepmail?
Let's roll!
We were bundling messages and cards with the care package items before, but as the troops are on the move right now, the regular care package APO's are on hold.
My Donation Number is just for the scarves, nothing else.
However, if you want to send me a Christmas or other Holiday card for a soldier, or more than one, I will bundle it in the next care package I get soon as I hear from my contacts where their APO's are going to be.
For security reasons, I send all bundled cards, photos, child drawings, etc. without envelopes, so write your address, etc. information on the card itself somewhere.
Just FReepmail me or email me requesting my address and I will send it to you.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah to our troops at home and abroad. Your country is incredibly proud of you.
America has faith in you and your prowess, and faith that we all fight the good fight, that our cause is just, and that the battle belongs to us.
Two Towers
Shattered in the blue dawn's early gleaming,
Steel and glass fall down one fateful morn.
Twin Towers burn in fires of hateful dreaming.
We wake to pyres of nightmares newly born.Now, rebel clerics fan the flaming rabble.
And yet, the Bell of Hope chimes. God, we hear it
Above the evil death-cult's towering babble,
Ringing to our heart, our mind, our spirit.So to our Towers our streaming faces turn,
Still standing on our bannered City's Hill--
As Root and Branch our enemies can't burn--
As Pen and Sword: the allies of our will.For God and Country stand our righteous Towers.
The Two are not Jihad's. The Two are ours.
FRegards, Jack
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