Thank You so much to all of you who donated to our Adopt A Soldier fund. This is just a reminder that we really need your help. We have a end of June cut off so we can get all the supplies before the soldiers start coming home a few weeks later. Feel free to share this info with your friends. We need to raise over $3000 (and were not even half way there yet) to be able to provide some basic comfort items for these guys and gals. Again, to those of you who have donated THANK YOU SO MUCH. Below is a copy of the email I sent out to family and friends. We really need your help. Becky!! 
Hello Everybody! We just hit the 1 yr mark of our soldiers being in Iraq. We are so excited to be starting the countdown to redeployment (coming home). We are starting to plan our Welcome Home festivties. Part of that is taking care of the single soldiers. Did you know the first 24-48 hours the only items a single soldier has are the ones they carried with them? It takes 6 weeks + to get the rest of their belongings that that they had in Iraq (they are shipped back on a boat), or to be able to access storage. Have you been wondering what you can do to support a soldier? For as little as $15 you can put a smile on the face of a hero!This $15 will go towards sheets, toiletries & goodies for the single soldiers barracks. Those last few days before they come home, we, the family members, go and make the bed's and get the barracks ready for the return. For those single soldiers, returning from deployment doesn't necessarily mean going home, it means returning to an empty barrack at Fort Hood. If you would like to Adopt a single soldier, you may do so by pay pal (http://www.railgunnerfamily.com/220/index.html), mail a check to the unit, or mail a check to me. If you have any questions, please ask. This would also be a great time to have kids draw pictures, write letters we could place in the barracks. This is such an exciting time for the soldiers and the families. Thank you for all the letters, emails, care packages and prayers in behalf of all of the soldiers.
Becky!!
www.41stfiresbrigade.comwww.hood.army.mil/41stfires
Hello Everybody! We just hit the 1 yr mark of our soldiers being in Iraq. We are so excited to be starting the countdown to redeployment (coming home). We are starting to plan our Welcome Home festivties. Part of that is taking care of the single soldiers. Did you know the first 24-48 hours the only items a single soldier has are the ones they carried with them? It takes 6 weeks + to get the rest of their belongings that that they had in Iraq (they are shipped back on a boat), or to be able to access storage. Have you been wondering what you can do to support a soldier? For as little as $15 you can put a smile on the face of a hero!This $15 will go towards sheets, toiletries & goodies for the single soldiers barracks. Those last few days before they come home, we, the family members, go and make the bed's and get the barracks ready for the return. For those single soldiers, returning from deployment doesn't necessarily mean going home, it means returning to an empty barrack at Fort Hood. If you would like to Adopt a single soldier, you may do so by pay pal (http://www.railgunnerfamily.com/220/index.html), mail a check to the unit, or mail a check to me. If you have any questions, please ask. This would also be a great time to have kids draw pictures, write letters we could place in the barracks. This is such an exciting time for the soldiers and the families. Thank you for all the letters, emails, care packages and prayers in behalf of all of the soldiers.
Becky!!
www.41stfiresbrigade.comwww.hood.army.mil/41stfires
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