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December 09, 2005
Last minute Operation Santa request from the sandbox
We're wrapping up Operation Santa for this year - over 12,000 stocking mailed so far - but we just got the following request:
The problem is we have some units in Afghanistan and Iraq that will not receive their MWR dollars in time to plan a Christmas holiday for the troops.Don't have an exact number of troops, and the Master Sgt that e-mailed
me from Afgan (whom I know personally) has not been able to re-email me since.But if some stockings could be sent to their unit commander that would really help. Please let me know for sure though so I can tell them to expect something. Thank you again, and bless you both for all you are doing for our service members and their families.
I'll be working this weekend to fill this request - if you'd like to donate to help with the cost of filling an additional 217 stockings, hit the PayPal donation button here or on the Marine Corps Family Foundation site (be sure to note that it will be for the 1107th AVCRAD effort).
Posted by Deb at December 9, 2005 06:39 PM
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Deb,
God love ya for the last minute hoo-ya for the Army. Tried to kick 50 greens but paypal is jammed right now, Hope its because of traffic
to your local. I'll try later,
Merry Christmas
Dad of 3/7 wpns doc 1 MARDIV
Posted by: Richard at December 11, 2005 02:52 PM
Deb,
I forgot to note that my Paypal payment was re: the 1107th AVCRAD effort, as you requested.
Hope that doesn't muck things up too much.
BTW, I can't seem to ping the blog for trackbacks; I getting "failed: HTTP error: 403 Throttled." Whatever that means. ;-\
Posted by: Casey Tompkins at December 11, 2005 09:24 PM
Deb - I kicked in a little bit as well. You are a great elf :-)
Posted by: Barb at December 12, 2005 08:43 AM
How much do you need?
Email me.
Posted by: Petro at December 12, 2005 06:03 PM