Special Contact Requests

Re: They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

joCee — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:07:47 GMT

Odie Summers - Colombia 12/12 - has updated again after dropping off into Old Contacts

Re: They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

joCee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:11:29 GMT

I think SFC James D. Helmling sounds a lot like the Jim Helmling that was in A-Stan two years ago.

Re: They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

Gran — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:28:08 GMT

CSM Otis E. Hooper Afghanistan (200 males / 25 females) 14 requests

who signed up 4/04 then went to old contacts updated today 7/30

He was 1SG in Iraq in 2005 when we sent him one package, but he went to old contacts, so we never sent another one. I just noticed that he was signed up again when he updated today.

Gran

Re: They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

PatrioticLady — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:22:36 GMT

SGT Michael Blackert (was Cpl Michael Blackert when he dropped off the list due to no contact) has reappeared. Since he's from Ft. Campbell, which is 30 miles north of us, I've added him back to my Rolodex and will be sending him a care package this weekend - along with my "Thank You for All You Do" slideshow, of course...

Re: They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

joCee — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:14:12 GMT

MSgt John F. Callaghan has been rescued from internet oblivion after having been lost in the great Callaghan Controversy.

Just because I can't take someone as a contact doesn't mean that I don't worry myself sick over them.

Thanks Marty & Support Team

Re: They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

Mimi Z — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:04:47 GMT

Hey joCee and Gran,

I think one reason a lot of them do go to old contacts, because things are still heating up in Iraq, although some things are getting better. I know that some of my contacts, like Jason Silva, I e-mail them when they go to old contacts, or there is the message on their Post that they have not been heard from. I know, though, that we can only do this with the ones that we are in contact with by e-mail. Also, my contact, Lovier Walker, now Lovier Miller as she got married when she went on R&R, will be coming home in September, but I advised her to still update AnySoldier, until they do leave. We are also IM partners and she is just a wonderful woman, who misses her husband and children like crazy, and can't wait to go home until her next deployment. I once asked her, with the war going on, was she still happy she had joined the Army. She told me she has been everywhere, and loves her job, and wouldn't change her life for anything. She is dedicated to the USA and the Army.

I was also busy doggie sitting for my sister, going back and forth to her house for the dog, and my place for my kitties, and work that, I didn't get a chance to read the forum and keep up with the posts.

Deb, Empress Francis, had pm'd me to tell me that Jason Silva, had gone to old contacts, so I e-mailed him, and he did respond. I'm sure Itsmesheila e-mailed him also as she supports these kids, and they love to EAT. LOL!

It was when I was on-line at my sisters and IMing Lovie, that Sophia Canino, who was a contact that sent me an e-mail, and was added to my Messenger list, popped up and said, who is this and how did I get her IM address. So I explained to her that I have sent them pkgs. and she sent me a thank you note. So she then said she remembered me, and I asked her where was she, and she replied Walter Reed. So, I asked her if she was wounded and that is when she told me, she was still in Iraq, was feeling healthy as an ox, and the next day was being medivacued out of IRAQ, with double pneumonia which led to her heart and lung failure, and the doctors still do not know why that happened. So since she is a Contact of AnySoldier, I asked her if she would like me to e-mail Marty, as he would know how to help and support her as he is a Daddy also. She is just a kid, and when I had heard from her on July 6th, she had already been in Walter Reed for 3 1/2 weeks, and didn't know when she would be going home.

So, if you are in e-mail contact with an AS contact, and they aren't heard from, just contact them and let them know.

As for the others that fall into old contacts, I am sure, they are out on missions, and may have a hard time contacting AS, or maybe they get enough support and drop off so others can be supported, or maybe they didn't get any support and became discouraged.

Whatever, the case, like a Mom from SF once said, and I can't repeat it verbatim, I mean I do suffer from CRS, if we can only touch one contact, then we have (can't think of the word) helped them.

I think joCee, that it would be a good idea to start a new thread for "Old Contacts", and this could be it.

Mimi

SGT JEREMY D. WILLIS

Gran — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:25:03 GMT

SGT. JEREMY D. WILLIS went to old contacts due to 60 days of no contact on July 15 - updated July 18.

Gran

Re: They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

Brooklyn Born — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:20:09 GMT

SSgt James D Welborn is back . Posted once then dropped for no contact. Now back, same address

Re: They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

rosepeddles — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:12:30 GMT

PO2 Luis Anaya is back as of July 15th. He was on the overlooked contacts list and then got dropped for no contact.

Rosemary

Re: They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

Gran — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:04:36 GMT

Jo,

Thanks for starting this out. I hope that someone more vigilant than I am can help spot the returning contacts whichever way it be.

Gran

They're Back - Contacts Updating Again

joCee — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:33:52 GMT

Because I can't seem to both reply and create a new thread.

Gran says:

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CPT (CH) Christopher Dickey is back again after having gone to old contacts for a little while.

This is one thing that can be a problem for me, as I have a tendency to quit looking for their posts after they are dropped. Can someone suggest how we might call attention to the contacts who have updated who have gone to old contacts? Do we need a thread for that, or is it just me that looses them and can't catch them when they subsequently update again. In other words, is it just my problem because we have had so many who are "short-termers"? We have had so many who we have sent mail to from 1-3 times and then they don't update after 2-4 months.

Gran

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I think this is a great idea and would like to see it cover both groups that have just dropped due to not updating regularly and those who are signing up again for another deployment (if I'm saying that right). I'm always afraid of "losing my guys" in the thousands of posts I don't get a chance to read.