Monday, July 30th 2007

19:30 (355 days, 8h, 45min ago)

It's Time for Another Blog!

Name: Andi Grant
Hometown: The G2TT Asylum

It's been a while since I last wrote. I am pretty busy these days and despite our increase in volunteers, we seem to always have work to be done. Our branches are receiving a steady flow of donated items from donors all over the world (Canada and other countries, too!) THANK YOU!

In Connecticut, we're moving part of our storage to another building granted to us by the Commissioner of Veteran Affairs! We're very appreciative for that space!

We also have a generous donor (retired Navy veteran) in Groton, who has given us his ENTIRE HOUSE to store donations such as cases and cases of Girl Scout cookies, cards from HALLMARK, our extra fliers, etc. Like I said - it's OVERFLOWING - which shows you JUST HOW MUCH SUPPORT our nation has for the troops!

As I said in my last blog, if you have any questions or doubts as to whether or not the support for our troops has faded, you need to come to one of our packing parties and read the letters from our troops who receive your items.

Please remember to take time to read the letters from our troops!

Link: http://www.give2thetroops.org/letters.htm?

I just posted 3 more letters which came in today (all hand written.)

One of them made me cry - it's dated July 25th from a young Marine named Cpl. James Mobley. They are out in VERY hot weather and do not have any ice or electricity or running water.

Having recently spent 10 days is 119-degree heat in Arizona, I was fortunate to get ice water, air conditioning, shade and good food. These guys have NOTHING are loaded down with heavy gear and are in a BAD, BAD location.

Yet this Marine isn't complaining. He reminds me of my husband who gives and gives and asks for nothing back.

They do what they do for us and our freedoms, and sometimes, it's not necessarily the words or photos that a troop writes that get to me, it's the fact that they are in such bad conditions and take time out to physically write us a letter. He mentions he read the letter we enclose inside our care packages. Just the fact that our little "form letter" is helping their morale blows me away.

Thanks again for all you do.

I am very grateful to all the branches and our volunteers and generous donors from all over the world.

Keep up the GREAT work!

Love,

Andi

P.S. I also want to welcome aboard some new Directors (Rick, Carol, Lydia & Christine in particular) and volunteers in Connecticut, Colorado, and Texas and thank them for agreeing to share our contagious insanity!

1 Comments.

Posted by Carol Kana:

Thanks for the update. Whenever I talk with people about G2TT, I always mention the thank you letters from the troops. My comment is usually "if you read the letters, how can you not want to be involved. We do so little and get so much gratitude from the troops who receive the gift boxes."
So everyone continue to spread the word.

As the new Director of Community Affairs feel free to contact me with any new ideas.

Tuesday, July 31st 2007 @ 14:51 (354 days, 13h, 25min ago)