tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9587882.post110723894240052667..comments2023-10-31T04:49:20.509-07:00Comments on SOME SOLDIER'S MOM: What to WriteSome Soldier's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16934456863737157251noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9587882.post-14487092060477423082011-06-29T08:35:01.177-07:002011-06-29T08:35:01.177-07:00Thank you for your suggestions, my nephew just joi...Thank you for your suggestions, my nephew just joined the Marines, and I would like write to him, but needed some ideas. My husband was in Vietnam in the 60's and I wrote weekly and sent audio tapes ( we both had the old reel to reel players back then) that way he could hear our daughters' first babbling as a baby. It is so much better today with e mail and skype. His very infrequent phone calls would come in the middle of the night and we could be cut off in the middle of talking. Then I would not know til I heard from him again if he was OK or not. I loved hearing his voice, but getting cut off was very difficult to deal with. <br /><br />Thank you!!Auntie Mimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01634924519231187291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9587882.post-85043975893711694332009-03-19T15:23:00.000-07:002009-03-19T15:23:00.000-07:00AnySoldier.com has addresses to mail out packages ...AnySoldier.com has addresses to mail out packages and letters to the soldiers.Yvette Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00353972530179583924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9587882.post-38930157380027013462008-03-06T16:23:00.000-08:002008-03-06T16:23:00.000-08:00you wrote this so long ago i'm sorry to be comment...you wrote this so long ago i'm sorry to be commenting so late!<BR/><BR/>i found this entry while searching google for a way to send letters to deployed soldiers. i can't find any websites & was wondering if you had any idea of how i could get started writing letters? my e-mail address is laurlala@Hotmail.com and i'd really appreciate any help you could give!<BR/><BR/>thanks,<BR/>laurenlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06080404238087720397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9587882.post-37923502086147065722007-11-25T19:35:00.000-08:002007-11-25T19:35:00.000-08:00im a senior in a high school in florida.. i want t...im a senior in a high school in florida.. i want to encourge kids at my school to write letters to troops but i myself want to send it to troops.. not to an organization.. do you know how i can get addresses. emial me at xxlahruexx@aim.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9587882.post-1117039218152572532005-05-25T09:40:00.000-07:002005-05-25T09:40:00.000-07:00I have a 7yr old who wishes to send letters to tro...I have a 7yr old who wishes to send letters to troops this summer to show support. Do you know where we can go to get that information or who we could write to? I love your blog. thank you<BR/>my e-mail is katieb@lchelp.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9587882.post-1107751146821073762005-02-06T20:39:00.000-08:002005-02-06T20:39:00.000-08:00Papa Ray, Your Mother was a pure soul who was made...Papa Ray, Your Mother was a pure soul who was made special by your love for her and hers for you -- something she left with you to pass on to your children and that special grandbaby! This story will be one more to tell your granddaughter along with many other special memories you will share! Thank you so much for writing and sharing. She smiled when you wrote it down...Some Soldier's Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934456863737157251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9587882.post-1107749564416414622005-02-06T20:12:00.000-08:002005-02-06T20:12:00.000-08:00Hello,
A special hello, because you remind me so ...Hello,<br /><br />A special hello, because you remind me so much of my own Mother. I went off to war back in 68, just turned nineteen and had never been more than 400 miles from home or my parents. I did ok while training in the states but once I landed in that far away country, I felt so alone. Surrounded by my buddies and new places, new things and having to worry about staying alive, I was still very alone and homesick.<br /><br />My Mother wrote almost every day. The things you talked about writing, she wrote, the attitude that you talk about, she tried to maintain. My family was small, I was an only child and most of my family had passed on. Her letters were the only thing tying me to sanity. When we didn't get mail, it was hard on all of us.<br /><br />I was wounded in late 69 and sent to Japan for recovery and later to W. Reed. My parents couldn't afford the trip to come see me, but the letters continued to come. When I finally made it home it was so sweet and so conforting to hold my Mom so tight against me.<br /><br />It was about two months later, one day she said she felt really ill, I had noticed she didn't look like I remembered her but you know how time and things affect memories. But I never suspected she was ill.<br /><br />To make the story short, she was hospitalized that day and never came home. While in the hospital, she told me that they had told her in late 68, that she wouldn't live to see 1969. But she told them, she would live long enought to see her son again. She said she knew that I needed her support and love.<br /><br />She kept her word,and she was so right. I really did need her support and love. Somedays, that was all I had to keep me going, that and wanting to get back and get me a Chevy Corvette. <br /><br />She passed on March 13,1970. In 2002, On the SAME month and the SAME day, my sweet Sarah, my one and only Grand Daughter was born. Named for my sweet Mother.<br /><br />Wonder of God's Wonders.<br /><br />Papa Ray<br />West Texas<br />USAPapa Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11454201360366303944noreply@blogger.com