jmcquown wrote:
>
> -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
Recently, while cleaning out some stuff from my elderly Mom's house,
we came across the letters she received from my Dad while he was
overseas. (I don't know what happened to the letters she sent to him,
but I'm guessing that when he was shipped home (on the Queen Elizabeth)
he wasn't able to bring them.) Mom gave me permission to read them,
since I was born while he was over there. In all of the letters, he
mentioned to keep the letters and packages coming, that they were what
keeps them going. EVERY letter, some asking for specific things, was a
request and a thank you. ....Sharon