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biig wrote:
> 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 Sharon, During the Vietnam years my father decided it would be the coolest thing if he and mom exchanged taped (as in reel-to-reel) taped letters to each other. He had a small battery powered reel-to-reel Sony tape recorder and mom and a big one. They taped letters back and forth. Dad gave me that small reel-to-reel recorder back in the 1980's. What he didn't realize was there was still a small 4 inch reel stuck in one of the pockets of the carrying case. When I queued it up I heard my Dad, who was about 35 at the time, talking about how Mom should go ahead and by me a proper bed since I'd been sleeping on a cot since I'd been out of my crib. I was 6 years old, maybe 7, when he recorded this. It was a strange and heartwarming thing to hear my father's voice talking about her buying me a bed, knowing as I listened he was away at a war (conflict) no one supported, but what was he worried about? Mom buying me a proper bed. She got me a canopy bed ![]() remember helping her bake peanut butter cookies and oatmeal cookies to ship to him. Yes, he treasured every package even though they took months to get there. I gather things are delivered faster these days. Jill |
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