In My Own Words

My day started with my Warrior Randy, who is currently in Iraq, buzzing me on IM as soon as I turned on the computer, to tell me his wallet was $20 lighter. I replied “$20 lighter, huh? What happened?” He said “It’s the darndest thing; $20 fell out of my pocket and landed in this [...]

Jennifer and her friend Lynn got their students to write letters and draw pictures to send to our troops. She brought me a big stack of them on Monday, and I looked through them before sending them on. They’re absolutely priceless; the troops will LOVE them! My favorite was the one that said “I think [...]

Every now and then, a letter will come back marked RTS – Unable to Deliver, usually because the addressee has redeployed stateside or moved to another location in Iraq or A’stan. Twice I’ve received a letter back, double checked the address with the recipient via e-mail, put the letter in a new envelope and addressed [...]

Santa Needs Help In order to assure that Christmas packages get to our Warriors on time, it’s critical to get them in the mail before Thanksgiving.  I appreciate any and all help in raising troop morale over the holidays.

I got another FREE MAIL today, from a Soldier in Afghanistan. The letter is dated August 10th, the postmark is September 4th, and here it finally is, in my mailbox on October 22nd. Obviously Cletus the Slack-Jawed Snail carried that one. I can understand the date the letter was written and the postmark being so [...]

It’s always so nice to hear from one of our Warriors. We’ll go for days or weeks without hearing anything from any of the troops we’ve adopted, which is fine considering that they’ve got much more important things to do than write letters to someone they’ve never met and likely never will. I’d rather they [...]

We’ve been supporting our troops long enough now that we’re finding ourselves with quite a number of “repeaters.” I was going through the contact updates on AnySoldier, not that we need another to support at the moment, when I found a name I recognized as a Soldier we adopted in 2007 when he was deployed [...]

This Cindy Williams is not the “Laverne &Shirley” Cindy Williams. She is an Assistant Director for National Security in the Congressional Budget Office….. Military Pay This is an Airman’s response to Cindy Williams’ editorial piece in the Washington Times about MILITARY PAY, it should be printed in all newspapers across America Ms. Cindy Williams wrote [...]

If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you know there was a pretty big battle over the weekend in Afghanistan. 8 of our troops made the ultimate sacrifice. One base was completely destroyed and 56 men lost all of their belongings except the clothes on their backs. The Army is working to replace [...]

I put four care packages in the mail today, thanks to funds from “Help Raise Dough for the Troops.” Shawn also donated $12 to cover postage on one of them, which was an immense help. That’s $12 I’ll be able to use for “stuff” rather than postage. It’s time to start collecting stuff for Christmas [...]