-L. wrote:
> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/dining/31care.html
>>
>> For Soldiers' Appetites, Reinforcements
>> By KIM SEVERSON
>
> <snip>
>
> **** sending them cookies. Just bring them back home!
>
> "Personal interest" stories like this make me wanna puke. Let's hear
> the real stories of war - where little kids get shrapnel in the eyes
> and grandmas get their legs blown off. War is not about cookies and
> emails from soldiers.
>
> -L.

Well sweetie, those soldiers appreciate care packages from home, even if it
isn't from their own home. My father is a veteran of WWII, Korea and
VietNam and he sure appreciated letters (they didn't have email back then)
and cookies and brownies. So don't go shooting off your mouth lightly.
Unlike me picking and choosing cookies and snacks for an airplane, people
who join the military and get shipped off don't get to choose where they are
sent. And every little care package reminds them we care even if we don't
approve of the war they are fighting.

Jill