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December 25, 2005
1107th AVCRAD Update
For those of you who met a last minute request to send packages to a group of deployed Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, you made a difference. Emails started coming in this morning.Here's one:
I wanted to thank you from the heart. I'm now in Iraq and received one of the packages you put together. I am now in Iraq. Knowing that people like you care and support us here is a great comfort. I Pray you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a safe new year. Again thank you.And another:
I am a national guardsman from Missouri. I am currently deployed in Kuwait. This is my first deployment in twenty-six years of National Guard Service. This is also the first time I have been away from home for more than three weeks since my children were born. While I thank you very much for your gift, because it did make the day that much better. I salute you maam. You and people like you are the ones who make it worth the sacrifice of being away from home and doing what we do. I also salute your son. Because of young soldiers like him, like I said, this is my first deployment. They are the true hero's It gave me great pride to receive your gift, and I thank you very much. Happy Holidays to you and your familyAnd, here are two of the guys that made it happen. Eric Whitesell is one of my students who assured me that the packages, priority mailed in late December, would get to the soldiers in time.
It's a picture of me (the delivery boy) and my cousin (Naval Intelligence) on the cargo ramp at Baghdad International airport. We brought in care packages (and anything else our boys and girls asked for) the U.S. military. Since Deborah's son is a United States Marine, I thought she might be interested in the picture. (By the way, the guy with the M-16 is a Marine and the airplane was what I flew). . . My friends are working the priority mail into Iraq. It'll get there by X-Mas.Thanks, Eric, and thanks to everyone else who helped with this effort.
Posted by Deb at December 25, 2005 09:30 AM
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