This was forwarded to me by a friend of mine who is looking for someone to boost the morale of a couple young soldiers in Afghanistan. They have no family to speak of, and they could use some letters.
It seems to me that we are in a position to help these people out with some moral support. I class of second or third graders, or anyone sending them a card would do wonders for them. Anyway, if you don't want to have anything to do with this, ignore it. If you want to help out a couple kids a long way from home, please do. Below is an email from a good friend of mine who is stationed in Afghanistan. If you can help out with his request it would be appreciated. Hello All, from sunny Afghanistan. Most of you received a similar email from me the last time I was here in Afghanistan. Please forward to anyone you think may be interested in helping two of my soldiers. The reason I am writing this is not for me. Alot of you are writing and asking if I need anything. Instead of sending stuff to me maybe you can help me out with this. You see I have two young soldiers here with not much family. I was hoping to get them some mail or cards so they don't feel so far away from home. Okay here is my dilemma these are proud guys, and may be embarrassed if I was to let someone on the outside know if I told there story, so if I could be so bold I would ask you or anyone you may forward this to not divulge how you came about there names below. I have been telling them (my soldiers) that alot folk at home just get names from military sites that list deployed soldiers. You and I know these don't really exist but they have not figured it out yet. I did this last time we were deployed and the soldiers did not figure it out for about 8 months. It was really great, it started with a simple email like this, and everyone started sending it to people in there address books. Word spread like wildfire thanks to people like you. Mail and care packages started flowing in by the bag. I'm not asking for anything, maybe just a quick card or some old magazines that young guys would like. Cars,Guns things like that, things that folks were going to just throw out anyway. Anyway I hope you can help me with my quest to make these young soldiers life a little more enjoyable while they are away. Please feel free to forward to anyone you like and they can forward to anyone they think would like to help out with this. Again if possible please I would like to try and stay anonymous. The Soldiers names are: PFC Cristian Mosser and PFC Raymond Wiest HQ ISAF US NSE/MLT APO AE 09356 Thanks So Much in Advance. See you in a year. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/305 - Release Date: 4/8/2006 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the schaller-crest.k12.ia.us server.] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
