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Please don't foget this.......

kolanuraven

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I now have several ' adopted' groups in Iraq and Afghanistan.......and we ' talk' everyday via instant messenger services. It does break your heart...
 

Steve

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http://www.anysoldier.com/

each person "adopting" a soldier adds to the support for our troops.....Thanks ....
 

Steve

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a local kid, We have sent a few boxes to is deployed away from the main camps, (in the middle of nowhere?) and it seems his boxes took forever to get there...about a month and a half......yet has daily e-mails....

do you find that is normal?

...as when my friend was at bagdad he seemed to get them in less then a week....and tikrit took about two weeks at the most..even fullujah didn't seem much over two weeks....
 

Steve

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also in one box we sent him microwave popcorn (a past favorite) he e-mailed us and said please send a microwave..... but said since we sent enough to share they managed to get it popped.. :lol: :lol:
 

kolanuraven

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One group out near Baqubah can get mail in about 1 wk....another closer to Baghdad about the same....this last group I've picked up will be an experiment. My other guys who are the IED techs who ' dig' up the bombs are on about a 1wk turn around time also.

This last ' bunch' I've claimed are a tactical force near Pakistan and there's only 4 guys and they have no PX....nothing. So we'll see how long that mail takes. I'm not sending anything microwaveable as of yet ( just snacks and muchies etc) until we can make better contact and conversation. They really wanted personal items.....told me " we stink!!" :) :) :) . So, I' ve also got them a " look pretty, smell good" box on the way.

The guys tell me that it really just depends on how the planes are flying and scheduled and that in relation to their location, it's kind of a crap shoot either way.

Honestly, 90% of them just want letters and contact. A buddy of mine who is Col. now told me that a lot of those kids don't gt even letters from home and when someone does get a letter, etc it gets read about 30 times by EVERYONE!!! So, just write some notes, send some cards...that's easy and cheap and seems to mean a WHOLE lot to the folks on the other end.
 

Liberty Belle

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kola,
Thanks for posting this. Most of "my" kids have returned from both Iraq and Afghanistan, with a few notable exceptions, so I'd like to pitch in help out with other soldiers over there who have been pretty much ignored by the homefolks.
I appreciate your concern for them. We owe these soldiers more than we can ever repay.
 

kolanuraven

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One thing a lot of people don't realize is that you don't have to already KNOW someone over there to help out.....heck...make a new friend!!

I don't know anyone of these service folks personally.....but as you all have gathered I don't meet too many stangers nor am I timid!!!! So, I just read thru the site....click on names and read their unit info and go from there.

It's a SMALL world these days and ya never know who will need your help. It's such a small thing to do for people SO far from home and who knows these very people/soldiers could come into your life again @ some point in the future.

I even send things for the Iraqi kids and if the guys are @ a village where they can give out the candy and toys they do.

What goes around DOES come around!!!! So, THANKS for helping out LB I know whomever you pick out will love ya for it!!!!
 

Steve

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Honestly, 90% of them just want letters and contact.

during the early days of the war,,a good friend who was in a combat surgical team, said he found a good joke was the best thing ever sent to him....

since then when ever I send a package orl I try to print out a few good jokes, and include them...
 

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