Cub Scout Pack 3 -- You've done a great job with the Popcorn/Greens sale, and remember, money turn in is Monday 3 December for your den leaders at the Pack Leader Mtg., so get your stuff to them. "Granville Pack 3" is the right entry for "Pay To the Order Of," and turn in as much as you can in one check written thusly (no cash or coins, please).
As we head for the Christmas season and our own Pack meeting Dec. 13 (a week early this month, with the Toy Drive info posted here shortly), we did a great job with the stuff for the troops overseas. A friend who was recently embedded with British troops in Basra wrote this: "American soldiers get care packages from people they do not even know, and those packages are morale boosters. American soldiers get cards from kindergartens from sea to sea, and the soldiers paste the cards all over the walls of their headquarters and hospitals. I don’t know what it is about those homemade cards, with their squiggly letters, stick figures and smiley-faced suns, but whenever I am in hospitals in Iraq, those cards from the kids greatly lift my spirits. I’ve seen the British get cards and packages like this, but nothing like the quantity, variety and frequency of what American soldiers get."
So it was a pleasure to hear from Cubmaster Al's friend with an engineering battalion in Afghanistan where part of our giving ended up. How did our boxes make their way to soldiers and Marines out in dusty and marshy hinterlands? Look below --
They fly 'em in . . .
. . .truck 'em to bases, and then . . .
