And  he has ~*MADE IT*~    Thank you all so much, he was pleased as could be.

A blog friend of mine is a former Marine--his tour ended this year--and he loves the Resident Evil game series. The new one's coming out, and they've got a promo going on right now where if you solve a puzzle on their site, you get a link, and 100 clicks on that link get your name into the manual when RE5 is released. He solved the puzzle ...

I'm kind of broke and haven't been able to keep up with sending as many care packages as I'd like, and the requests for boots have been getting to me because they're needed and I don't have a prayer of helping with that. Today I was heading by the fraternity/sorority advertising pool on campus and one slogan caught my ...

I might call it "media" or something equally boring-sounding--could be news clippings from home. If you make it too vague it might be checked out, but it might be worth a shot.

Thank you for what you've pointed out. I try not to mention the economy or similar bad news when I write letters. In some respects there's just no way around it--I've thrown out letters and started over because I got downright emo over job-hunting. But I do think I need to be realistic, too, or that shock you're talking about ...

Telling my mother about this thread motivated her to send toilet paper to soldiers. Which meant using a box, which meant she could fit more things in, which meant I could pitch in some of the things I hadn't found a place to send to yet and drop hints about other needs. We ended up sending a nice full-packed box with TP, sunblock, "Any ...

Ello. M'sharky.  Ohio, here. I guess the reasons I'm here are complicated and also extremely simple. My feelings on this war could probably be considered divisive so let's not get into that; but at the same time, those are still my country's soldiers out there because I didn't speak up loudly enough. I'm pretty ...

...uh? I'm a democrat. Like a lot of things about my personal life, though, I don't think the soldiers really care.  (I admit I've been skipping around saying the gender of my significant other, although it's hard to not mention her at all in letter-writing, since she's a huge part of my life. Sometimes I think I should ...

Yeah, I just found the others. My biggest worry was cost--the bacon stuff was cheaper than the Mrs. Dash and I'm kind of poor. :p  That makes sense. Thank you.

I know bacon is pork--really!--but I checked the ingredients list of bacon bits in curiosity and the packages I found aren't actual bacon, just soy chips with flavoring. Would these still be offensive to Islamic countries and unmailable? If so, do you have any flavor-packet recommendations instead? I'm trying to find just things that ...