In hindsight I realize some of my favorite groups were chosen just because they didn't ask for anything. They'd post that they were beyond the wire, austere conditions, "but we're okay 'mam, just need your prayers". My boxes would get creative indeed. I particularly liked the thank you note received about having ...

>a campaign on: "Send a package, Send a check" to support the website. Over time, I've sent tactical & weather gear, coloring books and receiving blankets (and all sorts of sillies inbetween); and yes, have had to cut back significantly.  Nevertheless, there could be less ...

You know you're an AnySoldier Junkie.... when you've been holding back latte's, skipping lunch, (slowly) accumulating a special AnySoldier box for a coworker heading to his second deployment.   Packing it now thinking, these are the most useful things that I know of (for the heat).  I look around ...

Had worked way past duty hours (at the VA hospital) & was clearing email before heading out. Kept coming back to one (AnySoldier) group's photo on my bulletin board.  So many times I've read, re-read, re-re-read that Captain's encouragement to supporters because for all the support I've tried to write into field, ...

That was a fun read - I laughed out loud about the duck hunters.   No, never had that situation (smile) not yet anyway, but I have been shy, been quiet when I wished I had spoken up... I've been emotional when it's been onesided, been emotional when it's been mutual (that's quite an ...

I think it's down-right weird to pay for addresses when one of the reasons for limiting wholesale access to addresses was because of wrong-doers culling data here to post for sale for profit.  Somehow buying & selling "my" guys rubs me the wrong way.   But I don't mind the paying toward the website part. How ...

Kathy, I went back and re-read your post and laughed out loud about getting Maxim "just for the stories".  I've had the same temptation when "caught" by neighbors when catalogs from  LA Police Gear, Blackhawk, US Tactical, Brigade Quartermasters, Surefire, Sniper World, Ghillie Gear (etc.) all arrive at the ...

Kathy - You betcha! particularly your last two paragraphs.  Thank you.

You must be an AnySoldier Junkie if....  (as a civilian) you automatically salute the high & tights. In a huge crowd of young men piling out of a performance venue, I'm saying Hi and meeting buds of all the boys I've known since they were tykes: hugs here, acknowledgements there, smiles all around.  My own son ...

You must be an AnySoldier junkie...when on receiving email from a warrior redeployed home 14 months writes, "do you remember me?...  and your eye shoots directly to his unit's photo (still on the bulletin board) with assurances of your consistant ongoing prayer. "Still in rehab, and would help if somebody knew ...