Christmas Requests 2008
Last post 12-28-2008 11:34 AM by ann. 99 replies.
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Janet
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Re: Christmas Requests 2008
Garage sales are a great place to find decorations. I hit a grand one a week ago. They must have bought out a discount store because they had loads of merchandise in original packaging. I had picked up a stack of nice, lightweight yet durable-looking ornaments and beaded tinsel that totalled $2.50. When they found out I was buying them to send to my soldiers, they gave me a HUGE box full at no extra charge. I counted nearly 50 boxes of ornaments, tinsel, etc. when I got it home. Now comes the fun of picking which units to send them to!
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Gran
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- rural central Arkansas
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Re: Christmas Requests 2008
Janet,
Yeah, last year we had a personal request from our special Arkansas hospital unit in Iraq, and I carefully picked the best of a color theme in various decorations at Dollar Tree to fill a box, then on the way home, hit two yard sales and for $1.25 got enough more to fill another box.
Gran
Gran
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine
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ann
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Re: Christmas Requests 2008
Thanks for the ideas on garage sales Janet and Gran. Great idea.
BJ's has all of their Christmas stuff out too. Found a big bag of cinnamon scented pine cones/with cinnamon sticks in the bag. Packed in a mesh bag. All I'm gonna say is - skip the air freshener - send the pine cones:) Festive and useful!!!
Ann
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ann
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Re: Christmas Requests 2008
Stephen N. Wagner, USAF, Command Post Controller,
Posted 26 Sept, 50/50, AK
Any thing for Christmas
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ann
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Re: Christmas Requests 2008
Tara Daugereau, USAF, OR Nurse, Phillippines
Posted 13 Sept., 8/1, AK, requesting Christmas stuff for the kids.
Tara has her own thread over in Special RequestsJ
TSgt Marisa Guzman, USAF, Med Info Systems, Afghanistan
Posted 17, Sept, 4/5, CO, requesting Christmas decorations(for small rooms/offices), Christmas cards.
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ann
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Re: Christmas Requests 2008
Jeff Wilmoth, USAF, Djibouti,
Posted 08, Sept, 12/3, Germany (by way of Uof Washington but from Austin):) - all different U.S. locations and services,
Cards and letters from folks back home for the Holidays.
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ann
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Re: Christmas/Halloween/Thanksgiving Requests 2008
Msgt Heather Silvas, USAF, Qatar
Posted 23 Sept, 42/43, AR (that's Arkansas - hope I got that state abbrev right:))
Requesting Christmas decorations, battery operated lights as well as Halloween, Thanksgiving and birthday stuff.
Msgt Melissa Smiley, USAF, Iraq
Posted 7 Sept, 39/34, TX
Christmas quote - “anything that makes them feel that the public appreciates there sacrifices…” for Thanksgiving Christmas New Years.
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ann
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Re: Christmas Requests 2008
CPT Raechel Hindelang, USAF, Iraq
Posted 27 Sept, 14/3, comp.
Requesting Christmas stockings, decorations, blank Christmas cards, candies, Thanksgiving decorations, a tiny fake Christmas tree.
MSgt William E. Gibson, USMC, Iraq, Current Fires Watch Chief
Posted 02 Oct, 40/10, CA,
No specific request but -- “Holidays abroad are very hard, specialy for the young married Marines. Thank you for your continued support.”
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ann
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Re: Christmas Requests 2008
TSgT Don S Wright, USAF, Qatar
Posted 31 Aug, 9/3, Aviano,
Posted - “We will be here through Thanksgiving and Christmas. ---most of us are from the South and TX --- with one from CA.”
MK2 James R. Powers, USCG, Machinery Tech, Bahrain
Posted 29 Sept, 10/2, VA,
Requests - nothing specific but MK2 Powers says in his post - “A couple of us have been talking about getting a palm tree for christmas and swapping gifts.”
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ann
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Re: Christmas/Thanksgiving Requests 2008
SGT Jennifer A. Horn, USA, Iraq
Posted 5 Oct, 45/18, IN
Requesting decorations and candies to decorate the Soldiers hallways for Thanksgiving and Christmas to “brighten the Soldiers holidays”.
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ann
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Re: Christmas Requests 2008
Melissa A. Pyatkov, USAF, Astan,
Posted 20 Sept, 50/20, Comp
Requesting Christmas cards
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ann
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Re: Christmas/Thanksgiving Requests 2008 - CSM Otis Hooper
CSM Otis Hooper posted today - 6 Oct - and is also requesting Thanksgiving decorations.
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ann
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Re: Christmas/Requests 2008
John Gorman, USMC, Landing Support Spec Ops Team Leader, Iraq,
Posted 6 Oct, 7/0, Nebraska,
Requesting - decorations for the living spaces for different holidays as well as items and tools mentioned in his post for everyday use so he can give his Marines a Christmas away from home. He’s asking for warm stuff for winter as well as useful tools for the field(listed in his post).
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ann
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Re: Christmas/Requests 2008
CH Brandon S. Harding, USN, Chaplain
Posted 07 Oct, 500/10, HI
Requesting Christmas decorations for their "small chapel and coffee house".
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ann
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Re: Christmas/Requests 2008
Robison Arana, USA, BN S1, Iraq
Posted 21 Sept, 29 Sept, 20/15, NY
Requesting Christmas (and Halloween) decorations.
SSG Lawrence A. Brown, USA, NCOIC, Kosovo
Posted 02 Oct, 312/20, Missouri.
Requesting Christmas items for his battalion.
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