[MR] Re: *WH* * Re: Servicemen overseas

[Julia Windsor]

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Greetings all,
Books work only for those at a perminately established base, such as Camp Doha or the Kandahar Airport. The vast majority of our fighting men (in Kuwait) are out in the field (or soon will be) with just the packs on their back and what a few support vehicles can carry. The best thing you can do is send the books to the Red Cross Station at Camp Doha in Kuwait. I don't know what would work in Afghanistan, however, I'm sure that someone on the list has more of a clue than I have since we haven't had to deal with an Afghanistan doployment.
We are sending care packs to Wulfstan every two weeks. If someone would like to send some items over to go into the Rec Center and would be willing to pitch in for the postage, I'm sure Wulfstan would be willing to get them to the Center. It helps if the packages come from family for security reasons.
Thanks so much for keeping out fighters in mind, It will gladden their hearts to know that friends (even friends they don't know) are thinking about them.
Julia
 Donnie Springfield <donnie at emj.com> wrote:Poster: "Donnie Springfield"
Several of our dear friends have been in and out of Kazakhstan, Afghanistan
and Kuwait in recent years. We get many requests from them for paperback
novels, magazines and music CDs.

At first we rounded up books from around the house and mailed them out.
When that resource dwindled to the favorites with which I could not bear to
part, we began to pay visits to the local PTA thrift store. For $0.25 to
$1.00 each you can pick up a number of books that will provide numerous
hours of entertainment for the serviceman *and* benefit your local schools.
While we did try to pick up books to his taste, we found that just about
anything remotely interesting is welcome because the books will be passed
around and traded several times.

I do hope this helps!

-Ikan


----- Original Message -----
From: "rmhowe"
To: "Julia Windsor"
Cc: "keep" ; "Merry Rose"

Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:11 PM
Subject: *WH* * Re: Servicemen overseas


> Poster: rmhowe
> Since I couldn't get -any- answer back in two weeks or so from
> our Baronial Seneschal apparently, whom I took to be concerned
> with our fellows over there, perhaps you know:
>
> What could our Servicemen overseas use for amusement and to take
> their minds off of things for a while?
>
> During the first war over there my wife and I both wrote them and
> donated to funds for them.
>
> Magnus
>


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