Sour Swinger Predominantly follows my Army & Iraq Deployment. Also has some Geek, School, and other talk.

I want to talk about all the donations received so far that are going to the kids and thank everyone for their support. I’ve received more then I ever thought. My room is so overrun, that I began having issues on space. After all the floor and locker space was taken, I was forced to start consuming my bed space. Haha. I eventually had to put up a large shelf because I’m still expecting more boxes to show up.

Many friends and family have started sending me donations following my Children of Iraq post. I know I was originally saying get everything in before June but now it looks like you’re clear to continue sending me stuff up until the end of July. I’ve received shoes, books, notepads, candy, food, stuffed animals, games and much more. Thank you all!

My platoon sergeant got his church, Beaver Lutheran, to send candy for us to throw to the kids. To his and everyone’s great surprise….they sent 100lbs worth! I know, holy cow right? Our current problem now is trying to hand out more candy then what we are getting in. Haha.

Somehow, Wilton High School of Connecticut got my name and has sent roughly 100 new pairs of socks to pass out to the soldiers. Hopefully they don’t mind that their socks have been going to the kids instead. This is one of many examples of soldier donations that get redirected to the children. Honestly, the soldiers are well saturated in supplies. Thank you Wilton High School!

The last donator I’d like to thank here is Simone Sauers. She helps run Berks Enduring Freedom group which gathers donations for soldiers. Just one week out of the blue, a horde of boxes started showing up. The group had assembled 2 boxes per soldier. One box full of food and the other of supplies. Food wise there was apples, girl scout cookies, chips, chocolate, candy, pretzels, etc. The supply box had a DVD, toiletry items, music cds, yo-yos, some small clothing apparel, etc. Everything in both boxes was zip-locked too. I wouldn’t be surprised if both boxes contained 50-75 dollars worth of supplies. Times all the soldiers in my company equals a lot of supplies! Of course we’ve been handing most of it out to the kids. Thank you Berks Enduring Freedom!

Now I have also been receiving soccer balls from Kick For Nick, however I’m writing a specific post just for them. Though I’d still like to say thank you for all the balls and socks that they have been sending. Kick For Nick was the first children donations I started to receive and continue to be my main supporter in sending what seems like an endless supply of balls.

If anyone would still like to send supplies for the children of Iraq, post a comment saying so and I’ll shoot you an email with my mailing address. Once again, thank you to all back at home who are sending supplies and helping supporting us soldiers. It means a lot to us.

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