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Please Help Our Soldiers
My son’s teacher heads up this great cause and I wanted to make you all aware of it. This is the letter she sends home at the beginning of her classes:
My name is Jacky and I am an early education instructor with the Oak Lawn Park District. I started mailing boxes when one of my student’s only parent was sent to Iraq. Now, boxes go out weekly to each soldier on my list who shares the boxes with their units. I know first hand from the soldiers who return stateside that these boxes mean so much more than their contents; they mean people care. The families back home also appreciate the moral booster their loved ons are receiving each time a box arrives. These boxes may be small, but they are mighty with support and positive thinking to bring our soldiers safely home. All my soldiers have relatives, friends who live in Oak Lawn, or are residents of Oak Lawn. It is a local support of our community. Below are item lists of some of the things that have been sent out since March 2003:
Shampoo
Baby Wipes
Soap
Toothpaste
Hard Candy
Juice boxes
Snack food
Lip Balm
Combs
Sunscreen
Gum
Tylenol
Food Bars
Toilet Paper
Foot Powder
Small botthle of hand “no water” soap sanitizier
Band Aides
Canisters of presweetened Kool-Aid, Tea, and Lemonade
Mouthwash
User Paperback books
Toothpaste samples or floss
Sunday Comics
Extra condiment packets (sugar, ketchup)
Toothbrushes
Children’s drawings
Extra item in a pack (example: 6th gum free in a 5 pack)
Encouraging letters
Hotel shoe shine kits
Hotel small shampoo
Hotel small soap
Hotel small lotion
Hotel sewing kits
Hotel small conditioner
Hotel small mouth wash
As you can see, you don’t have to spend a lot of money to help the soldiers out. We donate things every week and it doesn’t cost me a cent extra from what we already do. Also, she will take ANY leftover Halloween candy you have!!!
They will also take any donated stamps or funds for stamps. Items and postage can be dropped off at (or mailed to) Oak View Center, 4625 West 110th St., Oak Lawn IL 60453. I’d just put a little note on there that it’s for the soldiers.
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Didn’t see this on the 6′oclock news, did you?? The Mike Monsoor Story
The sailor pictured here is Navy Petty Officer, PO2 (Petty Officer, Second Class) EOD2 (Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Second Class) MIKE MONSOOR. April 5th, 1981 ~ September 29th, 2006
Mike Monsoor, was awarded “The Congressional Medal Of Honor”, for giving his life in Iraq, as he jumped on, and covered with his body, a live hand grenade, that was accidentally dropped by a Navy Seal, saving the lives of a large group of Navy Seals that was passing by!
During Mike Monsoor’s funeral, at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, on San Diego, California, the six pallbearers removed the rosewood casket from the hearse, and lined up on each side of Mike Monsoor’s casket, were his family members, friends, fellow sailors, and well-wishers. The column of people continued from the hearse, all the way to the grave site.
What the group didn’t know at the time was, every Navy Seal (45 To Be Exact) that Mike Monsoor saved that day was scattered through-out the column! As the pallbearers carried the rosewood casket down the column of people to the grave site, the column would collapse which formed a group of people that followed behind.
Every time the rosewood casket passed a Navy Seal, he would remove his gold trident pin from his unifform and slap it down hard causing the gold trident pin to embed itself into the top of the wooden casket. Then the Navy Seal would step back from the column and salute!
For those who don’t know what a Trident Pin Is:
After you complete the basic Navy Seals Programs which lasts for three weeks and is followed by Seal Qualification training (which is 15 more weeks of training) necessary to continue improving basic skills and to learn new tactics and techniques required for an assignment to a Navy Seal Platoon. After successful completion, trainees are given their Naval Enlisted Code and are awarded the Navy Seal Trident Pin. With this gold pink, they are officially Navy Seals.
It was said that you could hear each of the 45 claps from across the cemetery. By the time the rosewood casket reached the grave site, It looked as if it had a gold inlay from the 45 Trident Pins that lined the top.
What a fitting end to an eternal send off for a hero! Why isn’t this front page news? I got this in an email. Since the main stream media won’t make this news, let’s do it ourselves online. The world needs more heroes like Mike Monsoor.
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Wednesday’s Hero
Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello
19 years old from Denver, Colorado
1st Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
November 8, 2005
His parents didn’t want him to enlist, but it was his passion for helping people that led L/Cpl. Jeremy Tamburello to the military. “He was a very noble, very compassionate, very brave man” said L/Cpl. Tamburello’s father, Kevin. “He knew that he was going to have to go to Iraq and he knew that he might die, but he went anyway.”
L/Cpl. Tamburello was killed by an IED while conducting combat operations near Rutbah, Iraq.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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