thedrifter
07-16-08, 02:52 PM
Children make cheering deployed their mission
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:23 AM PDT
JOSHUA TREE — Desiree, Jakob and Serena Logan of Joshua Tree been busy this summer boxing up care packages, post cards, crafts and drawings to send to Marines and sailors from the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center who have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Logans fill boxes with snacks, socks and hygiene supplies, mom Lisa Logan reports.
“They actually have been sending too many to count care packages, pictures, stocking stuffers during Christmas and different holiday goodie bags for over 15 months to many different military units,” Logan writes.
The project was 7- year-old Serena’s idea after she saw a picture of a soldier early last year in Newsweek magazine. The photo accompanied an article about a lack of support for the military. After insisting the article be read to her, Serena thought something should be done about the problem.
Through the Internet, her family found www.anysoldier.com to help her on her mission.
Serena was able to gain different kinds of support from her family, friends, Yucca Valley Seventh-day Adventist church, women’s ministries, school and can collecting, her mother said.
The children have numerous pictures, cards, e-mails and letters from thankful military men and women and have gotten many other people interested in supporting their own units, Lisa Logan stated.
“Our sympathies and prayers go out to the many Marines who lost their lives and to their families from our Twentynine base, and we hope they always knew they were supported and appreciated for keeping us all safe,” Logan wrote.
The family was particularly hurt when the bodies of two dead soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division of Company D, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the “Polar Bears.” “The kids supported this unit last year when the ambush happened and especially during the many, many months of tireless searching, offering them all pictures, cards, snacks and of course prayers,” Logan wrote.
“The children would copy their hands on post cards with thanks for keeping us safe … so they all could carry them with them.”
Ellie
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:23 AM PDT
JOSHUA TREE — Desiree, Jakob and Serena Logan of Joshua Tree been busy this summer boxing up care packages, post cards, crafts and drawings to send to Marines and sailors from the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center who have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Logans fill boxes with snacks, socks and hygiene supplies, mom Lisa Logan reports.
“They actually have been sending too many to count care packages, pictures, stocking stuffers during Christmas and different holiday goodie bags for over 15 months to many different military units,” Logan writes.
The project was 7- year-old Serena’s idea after she saw a picture of a soldier early last year in Newsweek magazine. The photo accompanied an article about a lack of support for the military. After insisting the article be read to her, Serena thought something should be done about the problem.
Through the Internet, her family found www.anysoldier.com to help her on her mission.
Serena was able to gain different kinds of support from her family, friends, Yucca Valley Seventh-day Adventist church, women’s ministries, school and can collecting, her mother said.
The children have numerous pictures, cards, e-mails and letters from thankful military men and women and have gotten many other people interested in supporting their own units, Lisa Logan stated.
“Our sympathies and prayers go out to the many Marines who lost their lives and to their families from our Twentynine base, and we hope they always knew they were supported and appreciated for keeping us all safe,” Logan wrote.
The family was particularly hurt when the bodies of two dead soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division of Company D, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the “Polar Bears.” “The kids supported this unit last year when the ambush happened and especially during the many, many months of tireless searching, offering them all pictures, cards, snacks and of course prayers,” Logan wrote.
“The children would copy their hands on post cards with thanks for keeping us safe … so they all could carry them with them.”
Ellie