After seeing so many different stories about what soldiers in Iraq need sent from home, I thought this message from a cousin of mine was kind of weird:
We get a lot of candy people send us. The only problem is its all hard candy. I guess people are told not to send chocolates. We need chocolate. What would be real nice are those bags of small candy bars like you buy for Halloween. Snickers Butterfingers small Hershey bars ect.. . I work at the passenger service tent. We keep a box of candy on our counter for the army personnel to have as they come through. I think they would be very pleased to have chocolate. I am watching a soldier digging through the box as I write. No chocolate. Mail is taking about 9 days. We get about 500 soldiers through here a day. Often they are in our terminal for over 24 hrs with nothing to eat but MRE's "Meals Ready to Eat". Some double stuff Oreo's would be great.
Of all the things I would have thought someone stationed in Iraq would need, I think chocolate would have to be at the bottom, somewhere near fuzzy slippers or rubber duckies.
Posted by Jason at December 7, 2004 03:51 PM