No matter what you think of the current debacle in Iraq (oops, I guess you now know what I think), it is very difficult for me as a former member of the 128th Red Arrow Infantry Division to not feel a great deal of sympathy for all of the American troops in harms way and particularly the troops from the national guard units of my home state of Wisconsin that are currently in the nightmare situation of not knowing who is going to shoot at them next.
That's why this morning I made a point of getting my butt over to Willie's Army Surplus Store just outside of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, to the second annual "Support Our Troops" day. Good buddy Jay Moore acted as master of ceremonies as they raffled off a whole plethora of goods and services to the fine people who showed up for charcoal chicken, bratwurst (is summer really here??), and all the fixin's including Leinenkugel's beer.
The whole idea of the gathering was to have volunteers boxing up "care packages" to be shipped to our "home boys". Items included simple things that you and I take for granted every day, but are as valuable as gold to the troops in the field: bottled water, beef jerky, local newspapers, hand knitted caps, toilet paper, ball point pens, insta-clear lens cleaners, sanitary hand wipes, nail clippers, various candy bars, packaged socks, packaged condiments, sugar packets, cheetos, tooth brushes, toothpaste, chewing gum, peanuts, and the all-important chapstick.
If you have a soldier you would like to have receive a package, e mail Willie's at:
Willied@ecol.net
with your request. Better yet, if you can make a donation, no matter how large or small, those donations are needed both for postage and for the items that go into the packages.
While you are at it, sit down and write to ALL of your state elected officials and tell them how fed up you are with this criminal war and that you are supporting the troops in the best way possible by insisting that our elected officials BRING THEM HOME.
That is something I have done more than once and I implore you to be a true patriot by joining an ever growing group of disillusioned Americans in doing the same. Only then can we say "God bless America!" without it being hypocritical.
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