This came from another list. Martha --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:46:09 -0400 Subject: An opportunity to support our fellow citizens in a tough place. Message-ID: <[email protected]> Dear List Members, I am breaking my own rule about genealogy and history only on our lists. I am copying this from health related support list I belong to. It was posted by one of the mothers of a man in Albania. I have deleted her part of the message. The rest of this is as it came to me. If you feel frustrated about the pictures we are seeing on TV...charity begins at home...and here is something concrete to do. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&& John, Steve Iwicki was one of my young officers I "trained" years ago. Now he gets a chance to run his own Intel Shop in Albania. He wouldn't be asking for anything unless his troops were in misery. Please disseminate. Thanks Much1 Bob > > Greetings Friends, > > I would like to ask all my friends and associates out there to help > out my soldiers by mailing small care packages to us in Albania. You have > all seen the news pictures of "Camp Mud" that we are living in. Believe > me > when I say the pictures make it look a lot nicer than it really is. The > cameras only visit while the sun is out (which is almost never). We are > living in deep mud and almost constant rain. Staying semi-dry is our > biggest challenge. Our diet is straight MRE's and bottled water. We do > not > have a sufficient water supply for the cooks to properly prepare food and > clean the stoves, etc. Lack of potable water also means no showers > anytime > soon. > > I am not sure how long the mail will take to get here. It is > supposed to start arriving later this week. I would ask all of you > willing > to help out to send small packages that include non-perishable items for > now. Things that would really boost morale are food items to supplement > our > MRE only diet. Things like powdered drink mix, coffee (cans or individual > bags), crackers, cookies, chips, poptarts, cheese wheeze, sweets, candy, > etc. Other non-food items could include bug spray, foot powder, and sun > screen (hopefully it will come out eventually) > > I would ask that you mail any packages to me and I will share the > items with the soldiers in the ACE. The address to mail the packages is: > > > MAJ Steve Iwicki > A/302nd MI BN > Operation Task Force Hawk > APO AE 09348 > > Thanks for all the support, > Steve