Christmas in July for the B & F -Co of the 1-8Th Cav 08 July 07 14:00-15:00
Christmas in July for the B & F -Co of the 1-8Th Cav 08 July 07 14:00-15:00
We have been talking with our contacts at Ft. Hood about doing a Christmas in July for the 1-8Th Cav in Iraq.
As you may call recall, last Christmas Ft. Hood asked if we could sponsor Christmas for F-Co of the 1/8Th Cav and we only had 3 days to do it.
The SE Texas & Austin PGR responded with 2800lbs in gifts that we got sent out in 3 days and they made it to Iraq for Christmas!!
We sent so much that not only did we cover F-Co but also some of the other companies in the 1-8Th received gifts from us. All the items we sent them for Christmas are long gone. The 1-8Th has been one of the hardest hit units in Iraq and has suffered many causalities.
Sgt Green, who we stood tall & silent for, was from the B-Co 1-8Th. We will send our gifts to F & B-Companies of the 1/8th.
Let’s show these companies in 1/8Th that we have not forgotten them!
Our shopping day will be this Sunday July the 8Th. It takes 10 to 14 days to get to Iraq and for this to be a Christmas in July. I know some of our members will be on vacations, if you can not make it to the designated shopping areas then please help us out with the shipping cost.
For Christmas it cost us $1500 to mail all the gifts to Iraq. We need contributions to cover the mailing cost just as much as we need the gifts. To make contributions to help cover the postage:
Make Checks out to:
Mario Bunster
SE Texas Treasurer
“1/8Th Postage” in the MEMO area.
Send Checks to: (no cash)
John Darner
C/O PC&L
7125 W. Tidwell Ste L-106
Houston, TX 77092
This is our shopping list from Ft. Hood, please stay close to it.
We will have a PGR flag at each location for members to sign that will be sent to Iraq with our gifts
Sunflower seeds
Canned nuts, trail mix
Rice crispy treats
Candy (hard candy to give out to kids)
Cookies
Boxed snacks
Slim Jim’s
Beef jerky
Q-tips
Batteries ( AA’s and AAA’s)
Flash Lights
Battery powered fans
Black & Tan female hair scrunchies
Magazines ( hot rod, bike, fishing, hunting, football)
Razors
Lever 2000 bar soap
Dove body wash
Shaving cream (female & male)
Air Fresheners
Calf-length & ankle length socks
Tobacco (long cut & straight) Smokeless
Gum
Small American flags
Small toys to give out to children
Date: Sunday July 8th 2PM-3PM
Shopping locations:
North side
Wal-Mart Super-center Store #5287
21150 Kuykendahl Rd, Spring, TX 77379
Northwest
Wal-Mart Super-Center (290 & Tidwell)
13484 Northwest Fwy, Houston, TX 77040
Ride Captain:
Rick Cunningham (Ridethewind) windrider.127@peoplepc.com
John Darner AKA JohnnyD pgrrchouston@yahoo.com
Southwest
Wal-Mart Super-center Store #772
3506 South Loop E, Houston, TX 77021
Ride Captains: Southeast Ride Captains: Vicky Keller (Phone number redacted by Wino) Please meet at the front of one of the stores by 2pm to shop for our troops. There will be a truck at each location. At 3:30 the trucks will leave for the warehouse to unload and box up the gifts. We will volunteer during the week to bring all the boxes to the post office, more details on that later. Please join us as we show our appreciation to our troops with this Christmas in July gift drive. Follow this thread on the PGR web site: Patriot Guard Forum Thread John Darner (AKA JohnnyD)
Todd “DisGuy” Greer jtgreer@houston.rr.com
Mario “Kaoz” Bunster
Wal-Mart Supercenter El Dorado at IH 45
150 W El Dorado Blvd, Friendswood, TX 77546
Jerry Turner egtwarrior25@sbcglobal.net
Patriot Guard Riders
July 2nd, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Wino THANKS for the assist sir!
I’m still quite blogingly challenged but with your patient guidance this too shall pass………
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Katfish, I for one think you are doing very well! Keep it up!
July 3rd, 2007 at 6:33 am
Ms Neo - you’re way too kind!
July 8th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
By the time I left the 290 at Tidwell Wally World there was a long bed pick up load approaching FULL of shopping bags……….one PGR man & wife showed up and placed a check for $2 THOUSAND in the Ride Captains hand and said “If you don’t need that much for shipping just ‘put it to good use’…..” WOW!
That Mom was a member of ‘Military Moms’ who have so far shipped 60 TONS of goodies to Iraq……….PGR is working on only our 2nd ton……….we’ll have another shopping / shipping blitz at Christmas and I’ll report totals from this gather when I hear them…….THANKS one and ALL!