In My Own Words

Here is one view of the Soldier room, full of items donated by various schools and the central office of the Board of Education. This is before I started getting boxes packed and ready to mail to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (and one group in Kosovo). Before all of this came in, I put [...]

I am nearly overwhelmed at the response to my request for items to include in Christmas care packages for our troops. I have been doing this for five years, and every year I start requesting items in October. At most, I manage to get enough donations to fill three or four large flat rate boxes. [...]

In today’s mail we got our first Christmas card, which came from a group of Soldiers in Afghanistan. They all signed the card, and enclosed their official Christmas wish list. Funny – I just sent off a package with several of the things on their Christmas list in it a few days ago, which means [...]

In today’s mail I received a package from one of our Marines, which contained a Tennessee state flag that was flown in Afghanistan, along with a certificate stating where and when it was flown. Charlie is safe at home now with his wife and kids, thank God, and is one of my friends on facebook. [...]