Re: [Mid] (Fwd) SCAdians & other soldiers overseas

All these fun summer events! That's my excuse for being so late at
responding to my e-mail, and I'm sticking to it! This one I saved, though,
as it hit very close to home. My younger son Patrick is halfway through
year 3 of a 4 year tour of duty in the Navy. It has been about a year since
I have seen him. We are terribly homesick for each other. My boy has been
a SCAdian at heart since he was in grade school, and I think he would be
tickled to recieve holiday cards from members of the Society, as would his
mates. He has been in Japan for the last year. His address is:
CTRSN Patrick E. Richardson
PSC 473 Box 97
FPO AP 46349-2903
I am hoping he will become a card-carrying member once he is back in the
states.
Proud Mum,
Medb ni Ciaran MacMurchadha
(Deb Murphy)
-----Original Message-----
From: John Timmons <John_Timmons@AICI.COM>
To: sca-middle@midrealm.org <sca-middle@midrealm.org>
Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 11:18 PM
Subject: [Mid] (Fwd) SCAdians & other soldiers overseas

>
>
>>>I'm forwarding this from the Atlantia list despite its length
>because I thought some people might be interested and this is,
>as Hroar would say, is A Good Thing (tm).
>
>Rosamund<<
>
>And do you know what becomes of these letters? I've still got
>some of them. From Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 1984 and Aviano Air
>Base, Italy in 1995. Letters from school children saying "I'm
>writing this as part of my sixth grade project and my teacher
>says I have to" and from the farmer's wife in Minnesota saying
>"Thanks for being there, my husband is a vet, the kids are
>grown and gone and we're thinking of you." Some had drawings,
>some had school photos.
>
>We wrote back to as many as we could. In Cuba we handed them
>out in bundles. In Aviano there was a container set up that in
>the chow hall so you could pick some up and respond. I never
>got more than two follow-up letters to the people I wrote to
>but I'm assuming most were thrilled to know their letters were
>read. Maybe I'll visit the schools that the kids sent in as a
>class requirement.
>
>Even to the ones that didn't get a reply. THANKS. They really
>brought some smiles.
>
> Thegn Ian
>
>(GySgt, USMC, Ret.)
>From: John_Timmons@aici.com (John Timmons)
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Received on Tue Jun 22 22:05:43 1999