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  OT: Deployed Troops

  Hey everyone! So with the holidays coming up I want to send as much support to my brothers and sisters overseas who might not have family or are obviously away from thiers. I am having two large boxes of christmas cards sent one to Afghanistan and the other to Iraq, I know I appreciated those kind gestures while my unit was overseas. If anyone would like to contribute by sending over cards please just let me know and I can provide different addresses to both Iraq and Afghanistan to send some things. It doesn't have to just be cards either! Candy Canes, thoughtful momento's that go with the season... any gifts you can think of would be great! Alot of service men and women really don't have close family or firends and are forgotten on holidays, I would love to let them know there are ppl that appreciate them!
  
  Camerron

  Camerron W started this discussion 2 months ago. ( reply )

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  Nee (edited)

  Over the last 5 years we at the Friends of the Carpinteria Library book store have sent hundreds of books over to I raq where the troops put together a library north of Bagdad. I can see if some of our customers would like to send some cards if you’d throw E me some addies. :D

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    Camerron W 

    Alrighty Nee I'll send you a couple addresses shortly... I'm still compiling my lists =).

    Love that you send books over! we had a library when i was deployed to southern Iraq and without it i would have never have picked up Diana Gabaldon's Outlander!

    posted 1 month ago. ( reply )

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  mark s 

  good Idea, I donated some books with the local cubscouts to the troops....not certain if sending dune was a good idea or not...

  posted 1 month ago. ( reply )

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    Nee 

    Sure it was. The troops love any suspense, detective, horror, whatever. Although, not so much romance or long monologues over how some old man screwed his life up, and now that he has, what should he do about it now anyway. Same with sword and sorcery stuff. However, nearly every big selling novel from the passed 200 or so years is highly prized. The odd ones too…like: Lord of the Flies, 1984, clockwork orange, Slaughterhouse 5, Fahrenheit 451…even Artemis Fowl and the Potter books are hot with the troops.

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    Camerron W 

    I concur with Nee... any good book such as Dune is a welcomed item overseas!

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    Stephen P 

    a little humor there, huh, Mark?

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  mark s 

  Yep, Stephan...and I still only realised it after donation;P

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  Camerron W 

  To check out a few addresses paste this link in your browser, I have the main info in this group:

  http://www.shelfari.com/groups/43659/discussions/156959/-b-OT-b-Deployed-Troops

  Please let me know if anyone has questions!

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  Camerron W 

  So I'm excited I am going to be shipping out 200 Christmas Cards and Candy Canes today! Thought I'd share.

  -Cam

  posted 2 weeks ago. ( reply )

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