I was reading the swiftvets web site and this thread caught my attention: Swift Boat Link Reproduced parts below: "My (Arty guy on Swiftboatvets not mine) oldest son is a civilian employee of one of the major contractors involved in reconstruction projects in Iraq. He lives and works in the Green Zone in Baghdad, and there is a military hospital there. He and a co worker have taken to visiting the injured soldiers there once a week and my son has made a request. "Being a patient in any hospital is an extremely boring existence, and my son has discovered that these guys are short on reading material. He has advised that if people will send him old copies, or current copies for that matter, of magazines of interest to young American males, he will give them to the GIs. He specifically mentioned Sports Illustrated and Playboy. (Everybody reads Playboy for the articles of course.) You may think of others such as Field and Stream, Popular Mechancis, or who knows what else. "No pornography please. "Please send these items to: Charles Christian Isely Berger - URS JV PCO, US Embassy APO AE 09348 "I forgot to answer this earlier - books would be terrific - but since it's going to an FPO or APO, don't bother by using anything more than Media Mail. (Books, CD's, etc.) "Media Mail costs MUCH less than Priority or Parcel Post and in many, many eBay auctions of books, I've almost always had Media Mail pieces arrive in 2-8 days! "Once those boxes make it into the military postal system, that Priority packaging isn't going to do a single thing to move it any faster than any other box on the pier. Honest. "I just found this out and I'm switching to Parcel Post for all the packages going to Iraq or Afghanistan in the future. Costs a lot less, gets there at exactly the same time. The only difference will be the transit time between your post office and the APO/FPO facility at the dock in NYC." BigMoose: Now I'll bet a bunch of you guys have "stuff" laying around that would help our GI's here! Sadly there are more wounded every day as the heat is turned up around the election and with our advance on Fallujah... This might help some of our countrymen... Let's try not to get political here... perhaps we could all "just help?" Package up those ol' car magazines and Media Mail them to Charles Christian Isely above!! Thats all for now... BigMoose |