http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/1375079.html?story_link=email_msg

i am so sorry for you and yours, my family also lost my son on 10-16-2008.  as you know there is nothing that can compare to the pain we are living with.  I pray for you to find peice and comfort in knowing your son is a hero and is in heaven waiting for you. and watching you from above every second of the day and night. our boys are true american heros.   with love and prayers, kathy

Pink Boxers made the UK news.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1181998/Moment-teenage-soldier-went-battle-Taliban--wearing-I-love-New-York-pink-boxer-shorts.html#comments

I'm wondering whether the boxers started off white and that is why they ask us not to send red colored items (like the t-shirt)?  Oh well, pink works!!

Kaylynn, Apparently they were pink to begin with. You can purchase them by clicking on the link provided by colourful. They are now known as Pink Taliban butt kicking shorts LOL

 ROFL.....love the name for them  :)

One more pink boxer story. "Pink Boxers turn Iconic"

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090522/US.Media.Pink.Boxers/

Angela, you do realize that it would be the funniest thing to start sending them all different boxers from different states or whacky ones too!  Can you imagine the look on their faces when they opened up a box of goofy boxers?   I think this whole thing is just too cute and so typical of the guys.  It's like the goofy cartoon sheets that they get to try to outdo each other.

Kathy

Secretary of Defense Gates recognizes Boyd for a new level of psychological warfare:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521138,00.html

 Just saw the story, too cute. Is this one of our contacts??

 Wonder if he'll ever live this story down? lol

SmilesAmy

Makes you wonder if an AS Junkie sent him those boxers.  Or those flip-flops.  LOL  I can see the requests now:  "Flip-flops needed for walking to showers, hanging around the CHU/B-Hut/Tent, fighting against the Taliban... "

Thank you Shelly for that list. Unfortunately I remember quite a few of these heroes from our forum. I hope that we have made a difference in their short lives and that they knew how much we cared for them. That is what motivates me to keep reaching out and sending packages and letters.

That is exactly what has kept me plodding on expending money and strength when I thought I couldn't do my personally set quota of packages; I read what someone wrote a few years ago, and it still rings in my ears, although my memory dims now and I paraphrase it:

You never know when the package you send may be the last glimpse of human kindness one of these people will see (if their lives are cut short).  I don't remember who said it - maybe it was Marty, I don't know, but it has kicked me into action when I thought I couldn't pack another box without some sleep.

Gran:

That is exactly what has kept me plodding on expending money and strength when I thought I couldn't do my personally set quota of packages; I read what someone wrote a few years ago, and it still rings in my ears, although my memory dims now and I paraphrase it:

You never know when the package you send may be the last glimpse of human kindness one of these people will see (if their lives are cut short).  I don't remember who said it - maybe it was Marty, I don't know, but it has kicked me into action when I thought I couldn't pack another box without some sleep.

That really resonates with me.  That, when it comes down to it, is exactly why I do this - and why, I think, we all do this.