Golden Horseshoe VFW Post 8208

Military Mom Ask Father's Day Favor

(Note:  you can make your donation by mailing a check made out to VFW Post #8208, memo line: Father's Day effort, to the VFW at P.O. Box 653, Ruckersville, VA 22968.)

May 2008

Editor's Note from Alex Carrier:  Wonderful people come into my life every day. They are young, old, tall, short, of every description imaginable and I am blessed to know them all.

One of those blessings is a military nurse serving in Iraq. She spends her time making life better for those lives she works to save – our men and women of the armed forces. Sometimes this means more than medicine, it means finding spaces in dangerous days to bring hope from home.

For safety’s sake and privacy, I’ll call this wonderful lady (representative of so many caring for our troops) Nurse Madge. This is after a beloved aunt who had no children of her own but somehow managed to turn every person she loved into someone as precious to her as any son or daughter.

Nurse Madge does have children of her own – and a husband – waiting to welcome her stateside. She misses all of them and her emails often reflect her longing to be with family.

In the meantime, she stands in and cares for those young wounded troops whose mother’s worry and long for them to come safely home. That caring precipitated an email – and a request for help to provide some taste of home for her “Bagdad Dads” this coming Father’s Day.

This message was forwarded to me by our Greene county VFW Post 8208. The members of the post work to supply aid and care to wounded troops stateside and what they can to troops in Iraq.

If you wish to help in this effort, please contact me by email @ madge@vgreene.com and I will forward your offer to this VFW Post.

From Nurse Madge:

I need your help! Father's Day is coming up and I want to make the dad's here feel special and remind them that it's still their day to celebrate and that they do have little ones at home who miss them.

I am organizing the conference room in the CSH (combat support hospital) that's going to play Seinfeld, Family Guy, The Simpson's, and other TV re-runs. I'm going to have light refreshments of trail mix, popcorn, soda, chips, etc.

What I need are gifts, small prizes, raffle/door prizes. If you can help me at all please send it my way.

Father's Day is the 2nd week on June. It can be sports, beer, music, movies, x-box/ps2/3 games, controllers,
memory, electrical, masculine hygiene items, cordless razors, etc.

I'm just throwing everything I'm doing your way. If you can't help I understand, but I'll still throw it at you because I know you care and I want to include you on everything.

Thank you!
Blessings,

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