Goodies from home
Friday was mail call for the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, only their second since deploying from California in recent weeks. And Friday’s shipment to Forward Operating Base Hurricane Point was the first with boxes, care packages full of goods from home.
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By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Monday, May 14, 2007
They got smoked almonds, glow-in-the-dark Silly Putty, Twizzlers, foot powder, Mike ‘n’ Ike candy, energy drinks, tuna packets, socks, dried fruit, spicy Slim Jims, a towel, Oragel, a sheet set, the movies “Talladega Nights” and “Rocky Balboa,” a computer, pictures, kosher chicken and salmon meals, trail mix, and paper and envelopes for return letters home.
Some Marines got nothing.
And some know that more is on the way. One Marine is waiting for a package from his wife that contains yellow plastic lemons full of lemon juice, so he can mix it with sugar and water in the Iraqi desert and make lemonade.