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Hey all -
My wife has been "adopting" Marine units in forward areas of late (mainly Afghanistan,) hoping to help keep up their morale until they rotate back. If you've ever been "deployed forward," you know what that can be like - even getting a letter can be a real treat!
Mainly, that's what she's doing - writing letters where she can. She's even done a newsletter, she's calling it the "REMF Reader" ("REMF", in this case, being "Rear Echelon Mother & Friends." Yes, she knows what "REMF" /really/ means...) She's hoping to make it a semimonthly, something they can hand around and read. Some cartoons, some jokes, some sports scores, and "just a little bit of home."
Things being the way they are, postage keeps adding up. What I'm hoping to accomplish with this is simply this - if guys can kick in a buck or two every now and again, we can put that into postage to keep the boys' spirits up. I want to check interest before I go into more detail (and figure out how to work it easily on my own end...)
Of course, they're also asking for "a little taste of Home" in various ways - some of them would like some decent smokes (as I just told someone in a PM - higher-higher has forgotten all about Black Jack Pershing...) some want some coffee other than the stuff that comes in issue MRE's (Taster's Choice decaf, as I recall. Yech - and what's the point?) and maybe some more candy than they're getting (MRE's are notoriously thin on the stuff, and it also gives them something to hand around to the kids.) Some units also do a fair bit of PR to win hearts and minds - and want little toys - like party favours - to hand around to the kids.
And, while we're about it, if anyone wants to pass along a letter to "Any US Marine" over there, just email it to me at dragonland2001 AT yahoo DOT com and I'll print it and pass it along as well when we mail out.
No, we're not a charity. We're not a 501(c)(3). We're just a couple of citizens who are trying to do what we can to support those who are fighting the fight that we are no longer able to. Whatever your feelings are about our involvement in Afghanistan, just remember that it's a /political/ decision that they're there - I'm reasonably sure that most of the guys in-country would rather be in any of half a hundred other places! But, since they're there, we should at least let them know that we're thinking of them...
If I see enough interest in this sort of thing, I'll post up the email address that can be used for donations. Deal?
JDK
My wife has been "adopting" Marine units in forward areas of late (mainly Afghanistan,) hoping to help keep up their morale until they rotate back. If you've ever been "deployed forward," you know what that can be like - even getting a letter can be a real treat!
Mainly, that's what she's doing - writing letters where she can. She's even done a newsletter, she's calling it the "REMF Reader" ("REMF", in this case, being "Rear Echelon Mother & Friends." Yes, she knows what "REMF" /really/ means...) She's hoping to make it a semimonthly, something they can hand around and read. Some cartoons, some jokes, some sports scores, and "just a little bit of home."
Things being the way they are, postage keeps adding up. What I'm hoping to accomplish with this is simply this - if guys can kick in a buck or two every now and again, we can put that into postage to keep the boys' spirits up. I want to check interest before I go into more detail (and figure out how to work it easily on my own end...)
Of course, they're also asking for "a little taste of Home" in various ways - some of them would like some decent smokes (as I just told someone in a PM - higher-higher has forgotten all about Black Jack Pershing...) some want some coffee other than the stuff that comes in issue MRE's (Taster's Choice decaf, as I recall. Yech - and what's the point?) and maybe some more candy than they're getting (MRE's are notoriously thin on the stuff, and it also gives them something to hand around to the kids.) Some units also do a fair bit of PR to win hearts and minds - and want little toys - like party favours - to hand around to the kids.
And, while we're about it, if anyone wants to pass along a letter to "Any US Marine" over there, just email it to me at dragonland2001 AT yahoo DOT com and I'll print it and pass it along as well when we mail out.
No, we're not a charity. We're not a 501(c)(3). We're just a couple of citizens who are trying to do what we can to support those who are fighting the fight that we are no longer able to. Whatever your feelings are about our involvement in Afghanistan, just remember that it's a /political/ decision that they're there - I'm reasonably sure that most of the guys in-country would rather be in any of half a hundred other places! But, since they're there, we should at least let them know that we're thinking of them...
If I see enough interest in this sort of thing, I'll post up the email address that can be used for donations. Deal?
JDK
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