In My Own Words

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 [...]

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 [...]

My friend and fellow troop supporter “Maddog” gave me a heads up on a Warrior who posted that his Troops are in dire need of a morale boost. They’re not too far from re-deploying (going home, in civilian speak), but they’ve been through a lot and they’ve really been down. Being a good leader, Sgt. [...]

I got an e-mail today from Spc. Lizardo-Perez; he got the care package full of snacks and magazines yesterday. The first line of his message said “All I can say is WOW, awesome!”  I had enclosed 24 Guardian Angel cards, and he said once he opened the box, he set it on the table in [...]

Today has been a good day to hang laundry out on the line, so I’ve been doing laundry, and in between loads I got one care package put together and have written a letter or two. I hand wrote these letters, and it’s obvious by the pains now shooting through my wrist that I’m going [...]