CARE PACKAGES for our Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2006

patriciaruth ^ | 1-21-06 | patriciaruth

[Dante3]

You are doing good work. Bless you.

[patriciaruth]

Mailed September 2, 2006, to Bagram
1 box, value $60.71 postage $8.60 included delivery confirmation
26 individual packs of 15 Wet Ones (donated by my optometrist)
1 bottle 90 generic Pepcid 10 mg antacid pills
2 bottles 100 generic Extra Strength Tylenol
1 box 20 medicated Bandaids
1 spool tan thread
1 package 20 sharp long needles
1 pad 50 sheets lined stationery
25 small envelops
2 pens

Mailed September 2, 2006, to Camp Ramadi
1 box, insured $69.99, postage $10.40
1 drawing by AnnaZ’s son
4 DVD movies:
Flight 93 (A&E/Fox movie for cable TV)
Tombstone (Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott)
Batman Begins (Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine)
Walk the Line (Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon)
16 oz Bag Tropical Trail Mix
1 plastic Bottle 48 oz. Hershey’s Syrup
10 individual pkgs 15 Wet Ones in zipper lock bag (donated by my optometrist)
1 pad 50 sheets stationery
12 envelopes
1 black gel med pt retractable pen
Filler:
1 bumpersticker: “America is too Great for small dreams” Ronald Reagan
Time line of 9/11 events
1 Toothbrush (donated by my dentist)
4 TicTacs peppermint
3 travel Kleenex
12 loose Werthers Original sugar free hard candy caramel drops
3 Tootsie Pops

[fanfan]

I forgot to post that I was honoured to send a special request box. (I sent it a day or two before I left on vacation.)

I was reminded when I checked my e mail today.

E mail from Ramadi....

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Holy Jalomy lady,

You got the jelly roles right; those are the ones. You knew exactly what I was talking about. It sure didn't take me long to rip open the box. I think I set a record. The guys looked at me like I was a madman. I told them they just would have to find out for themselves.
The cookies are great too.

`snip`

Well, thank you so very much.

take care.

(Brave American soldier, Ramadi)

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What a sweetie, eh?

[Coop]

Great work, both of you! :-)

[fanfan]

I sent this back.....

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LOL! Holy Jalomy?

I'm glad to be able to make you so happy!
~snip~
I get such a boost from this,....knowing I'm making a difference in some small way.
:-D

Did you share any of them? LOL?

I tried the cookies for the first time a few weeks back, before you asked about the ah caramels, and it reminded me of them.
Is all the chocolate making it OK? Or does it all arrive as melted mush?
I'll send more strawberry rolls next time now that I know what I'm looking for, and where to buy them. As I said in the letter, (assuming you didn't eat that too), I could only find one box of rolls with a decent best before date. I'll keep my eyes on those now too.

Any other requests?



~snip~

My best to you and your troops,

(Fanfan).
:-D

[kattracks]

FReepmail from Patty:

Dear Troop Supporters,
I am under internet worm attack making it difficult for me to access Free Republic. It may replicate and send itself via email, so I have warned all my soldiers and friends NOT to open any email from me, especially if it is more than 1-2 KB long.

I'll be getting a new email address and using another computer, but it may take a few weeks to sort this out as I am hipdeep in another project that is going to take priority.

Here are the last emails from the front. Please let kattracks, nina0113, and SwatTeam communicate with the soldiers until I get straightened out.

Anyone who can get some soccer ball air pumps, please send to A Company.

I'll be in and out of touch.

From A company at Baghdad
Pat, How are you doing? We are doing fine and making the best of the extension. The Soldiers have sent letter thank you for all of the support you have given us. It has made this whole thing better. We are starting over in this new location (Baghdad) and was wondering if you could send us a few air pumps with needles, so that we can blow up the soccer balls that we give out to the children. This is a part of winning the heart & minds. Thanks again for all of your help.

From C company at Baghdad:
We have recieved the Blue Ice. Again thankyou for all the support. It is such a good feeling knowing that there are people out there that support us.

[fanfan]

Thanks Katt.

Does she think this is random, or related to supporting the troops?

[Dante3]

BUMP

[kattracks]

She didn't say, but that's a good quesion. I posted her mail to me exactly, as she asked.
I'll send her mail asking what happened, although she may not be able to give us an answer for awhile.

[patriciaruth]

I'm accessing my FR page from another computer, because I can't get access to FR on the computer with the worm.

I believe the worm came in mass mailing emails I received from a person I just began corresponding with over the last two weeks. They were trapped in my spam filter, but I stupidly opened one after seeing it was from him, not twigging in time to the clue that the email was 58 KB in size or more.

It is unknown to me if that person was the unlucky victim of an attack as was I just by happenstance or if it was someone who knew the work that person does and who deliberately sabottaged his computer and thus all those he corresponds with.

The worm was activated first when I accessed a link at FR to an article by David Horowitz about the Shadow Party cabal that is controlling the Democrat Party now.

That's all I know at this point, except I have warned everyone in my mailbox not to open my emails. I've cancelled that email address and am getting a new one.

[AppyPappy]

The worm does not infect in that way. The worm infects by opening an attachment or invading your network.

[patriciaruth]

I picked up 14 boxes of a Vitamin World product just like airborne today and will ship out in the next couple days to Bagram.

Also got the magazines requested, Economist, Stuff and FHM while we were out in the city. Our Stryker captain's wife was recently hospitalized (doing okay now) and he left Iraq for compassionate leave. Not sure when he will be going back. Enterprise, hold off on mailing more to his APO till I get more word.

I can borrow this computer to communicate occasionally, so I won't be totally out of touch, but hope you all can manage things, like finding someone to get a couple soccer ball air pumps with needles for A Company.

Cheers!
Patty

[Twinkie]

At the start, it seemed like there was a donation box in just about every store where they were collecting items to be sent to the troops. Around here, at least, we don't see any of that unless I'm just not going to the right stores to see the boxes. Of course, there have been several disasters where the collection boxes were used for other things and they seemed to just not pick back up with Iraq.

[patriciaruth]

Please tell me all you can about the BD B. R. worm 0.08a

[SwatTeam]

Patty

I ordered 3 DVDs to be sent to you and the eta is 7 Sept. Still haven't heard from Ramadi about the other DVD. Hope you get your worm problem taken care of.

[AppyPappy]

It doesn't show up on any of the radars. You could have the name wrong

[patriciaruth]

I may have remember the code number wrong.

DB or BD ? Blade Runner 0.80a may be the code.

Thanks for checking.

I've got my laptop down at the shop getting dewormed. May take a day or two if they can do it. I'm using another computer now to access FR.

[patriciaruth]

See post above.

I'll try to let you know when the package arrives.

[SENClander]

Some air pumps are on the way. Today I mailed two flat rate boxes to A Co. Each box contained:

3 air pumps with extra needles
12 cans of mandarin oranges
6 granola bars
2 boxes (10 ea) on-the-go lemonade
10 individual pack Oreos
1 Banana Boat 30 SFP sunscreen tube

[patriciaruth]

I'm back!

Death to Worms!