Soldiers Christmas

Hello Everyone,

I was reading the post on the LSWDA donations for the soldiers and I got to remembering when my son was in Afghanistan 6 years ago during Christmas. It was his first deployment and he was so homesick. Our family makes a big deal of Christmas and have done so ever since I can remember. When he would get to call home he would talk about what he missed the most at Christmas. We started gathering things to send to him for Christmas around Halloween. I found a little bitty tree with lights and decorations. I bought some lights for him to decorate his barrack with, then right after Thanksgiving we started making food to ship to him. His favorite snack was Trash, the snack you make with chex cereal. We made tub fulls and air vac them so they would stay fresh. We made cookies and candies. And bought many bags of chips and lots of jars of homemade salsa and jar after jar of homemade pickles. He loved to read so we sent all the new Peirce Anthony books we could find. I swear the box we shipped weighted around 50 pounds...lol
When the box got to him he became the most popular soldier over there, everyone loved his chips and Salsa. He placed his little tree and his lights around the barracks and they had a great Christmas. I asked him after he got home what he did with his tree and lights and he laughed and said they were still strung up around the barracks, he got home the following March. He told me how everyone there felt like they were closer to their family with that little tree.
So I am hoping that this little story will help to bring on the donations to bring on a little happiness to our great warriors. After all it is the least we can do for them since they are keeping us safe. Anything can be sent to them and it will make them super happy because someone took the time to think about them.
So let's get busy and get it rolling.

Merry Christmas and God Bless us all.

Robin Borden
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