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1 October 2005, SFC Michael Bachini." text[number++] = "\"The snack packages especially are the equivalent of ringing a dinner bell. The place could be deserted, but the sound of stuff being dumped on the table brings people out of the woodwork!\"
3 October 2005, 2ndLt D.B. Conrad." text[number++] = "\"After seeing the price of freedom I think that I\'ll take more responsibility about my freedoms back home.\"
1 October 2005, LT (Dr.) Brenton C. Hill." text[number++] = "\"You know you\'re deployed when a twinkie is the best thing you\'ve eaten in a week...\"
30 September 2005, SFC Michael Bachini." text[number++] = "\"If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn\'t plan properly.\"
26 September 2005, CW2 Wayne McCullough." text[number++] = "\" All of our food is called t-rations. It is basically a big microwave dinner. Not like momma used to make.\"
21 September 2005, SPC Jeffrey Johnson." text[number++] = "\"Our packages sometimes sit in the Sun for hours if not days and as much as we all enjoy real chocolate, it is hard to suck it out of a cardboard box.\"
21 September 2005, Captain Bart MacManus, USMC." text[number++] = "\"It is a wonderful thing this AnySoldier.com, Anyone who says differently just come live in my boots for a day!\"
8 September 2005, SGT Kenneth Peck." text[number++] = "\"Every Marine knows the mail call by heart. They never have to be reminded to go check the pile to see if something has come for their specific shops. It\'s funny because they will forget to eat, drink, and sleep but they will always remember to check for mail!\"
01 September 2005, CWO Robert Buerken, USMC." text[number++] = "\"AnySoldier is truly a soldier\'s best friend.\"
25 August 2005, SGT John Roberts." text[number++] = "\"Because of your organization we will not wake up in 20 or 30 years and realize that we could have done our part, but did not. We have learned from our mistakes. Thank you for showing us the way.\"
25 August 2005, Any Soldier Supporter Brenda, TX." text[number++] = "\"AnySoldier.com is the feeding ground of Guardian Angels.\"
24 August 2005, -Marty." text[number++] = "\"Mail call is the most anticipated part of our day, and because of your generosity, more and more soldiers are coming away with a smile... touched by words from home.\"
22 August 2005, SSG Sarah Campbell." text[number++] = "\"I do have something to add, of the many bases I visit on duty, every soldier I speak to - has high regards for AnySoldier.com and I am proud of you all for helping all of us out here. You are doing a sterling job\"
21 August 2005, Col. J.Discoll USMC." text[number++] = "\"We volunteer to protect and defend the constitution of our country, and will continue to do so against all enemies, but you are the heroes who inspire and keep us going. The force of our mighty military is not in the weapons, it is the might of a great and supportive nation of volunteers.\"
20 August 2005, Capt. Herschel Criner." text[number++] = "\"Thank you for your support during these trying times. You have made a difference and it is your service that we will tell our grandchildren about someday.\"
20 August 2005, Capt. Herschel Criner." text[number++] = "\"I cant get some of my best friends from back home to email me, but total strangers spend their own time and money to support us. Its truly awesome.\"
31 July 2005, SPC Scott D. Pugh." text[number++] = "\"The Iraqis that don\'t try to kill us are actually pretty cool.\"
21 July 2005, SGT Charles Vieira." text[number++] = "\"Imagine a fire-breathing dragon with asthma and that\'s what August looks like to most of us as it looms in a few weeks.\"
19 July 2005, SPC Damien Marts." text[number++] = "\"This is my second tour into beautiful Afghanistan (I was thinking about buying a vacation home here).\"
18 July 2005, Jeffrey E. Tavernaro." text[number++] = "\"I wish I could bottle the feeling it gives me to be treated with respect by these Heroes of today and tomorrow. Crack Cocaine would never stand a chance if I could get that feeling into an ingestible form.\"
17 July 2005, GySgt Maurice Y. Brown." text[number++] = "\"I\'m still here in Iraq and doing a good job from what I hear.\"
13 July 2005, Cpl Emet Hernandez." text[number++] = "\"I made it back to Kuwait to no water for showers nor toilets and 105 degrees f. at midnight. The port-a-jons are sweltering like crock pots.\"
13 July 2005, Captain Jeffrey L. Davis." text[number++] = "\"We will keep the terrorist\'s afraid and keep them away from our country.\"
12 July 2005, Sgt Marlon McKenzie, USMC." text[number++] = "\"Nothing I have done, as of yet, compares to the strenth, courage, and honor that you have given us here.\"
28 June 2005, AA Christy Hernandez, USN." text[number++] = "\"Regardless of your individual political beliefs or your feelings about this war, we love you all for the show of solidarity and the way you stood united as a people in support of the men and women of The United States Armed Forces.\"
23 June 2005, SGT Joseph Herbst." text[number++] = "\"I have seen first hand how Any Soldier packages have lifted morale and encouraged Service personnel to strive harder in the War on Terror.\"
22 June 2005, LTC Al MacKinnon." text[number++] = "\"The packages are great, but the real morale booster will always be knowing that we\'re supported back home.\"
21 June 2005, 1LT Brian Findlay." text[number++] = "\"Every day I pray to Allah to support the American Army and keep them safe from terrorists. [We] must stick together…good Iraqi's and Americans, in building Democracy in Iraq. I love Americans.\"
13 June 2005, Adnan Mohamed, friend of CPT Erik B Knutsen." text[number++] = "\"It not the boxes that count, its the heart you send within that counts.\"
11 June 2005, SSG Paula Henderson." text[number++] = "\"We could also use air freshener because after boots have been worn all day they can really give a unique smell to the cramped living quarters\"
11 June 2005, CWO3 Dwayne A. Green." text[number++] = "\"Without Any Soldier, nobody would have known we exsisted, Thank You again for making our presence known over here, in this big Sand Box.\"
11 June 2005, Sgt Tiffany S. Smith." text[number++] = "\"All I ask for is that any soldier keep doing what they are doing and nothing more...great job and thanks from the bottom of OUR hearts. Thanks!!!.\"
10 June 2005, Cpl Phillip Linn." text[number++] = "\"No one understands the importance of mail in this situation until you\'ve been through it. It is the biggest morale booster there is.\"
7 June 2005, Cpl Cameron Cook." text[number++] = "\"The content is not too important - the best part of a \'care package\' is the \'care\'...\"
1 June 2005, CPT Cameron L. Magee." text[number++] = "\"You don\'t realize the power of music until you see Americans, Filipinos, and others join in on \"Achy, Breaky Heart.\" God bless Billy Ray Cyrus.\"
28 May 2005, Chaplain Randy Curry." text[number++] = "\"All is well in the land of sand. It is hot of course. On the bright side, we get that expensive sauna treatment everyday, everywhere we go, for free.\"
28 May 2005, Chaplain Randy Curry." text[number++] = "\"We truly appreciate the support, not just the items that are in the care packages, but the care that went into sending them to us is what makes us happy.\"
26 May 2005, SSG Daniel D. Hine." text[number++] = "\"During this time of hardship, packages from Any Soldier were greatly needed and appreciated. Any contact with home, with fellow patriots has been a healing salve. Thanks again for all you do, America\'s warriors love you for it!\"
26 May 2005, CW2 Ed Maynard." text[number++] = "\"Personally, the only thing I would want for myself is the ability to go back to school when I get home.\"
16 May 2005, SPC Otto B Wilkinson." text[number++] = "\"Some heros wear a cape and ride in a batmobile...my hero wears camo and rides in a convoy.....\"
14 May 2005,(from my daughter Sienna) CPL Brenda Kay Berger" text[number++] = "\"Thanks to you, many Marines have new friends all over the United States, and have received hundreds of care package items that give them a temporary feeling of home, in a place that resembles nothing like it.\"
12 May 2005, CWO2 Shawn Harris." text[number++] = "\"Our current mission is two fold. We eithor drive a lot or we sit a lot watching people.\"
12 May 2005, SSG William Touchtone." text[number++] = "\"Now we do the wonderful field mission of the MP Corps. Everything else!\"
12 May 2005, PFC Matthew Williams." text[number++] = "\"Any Soldier truly is helping to win this war on terror.\"
12 May 2005, SGT Ryan Midolo." text[number++] = "\"The weather here is starting to heat up. The warm season is about to begin its reign of terror on soldiers. Temperatures will reach highs of 125 - 130 degrees. To bad they never invented portable rain.\"
10 May 2005, SGT(P) Steven Carpenter." text[number++] = "\"Freedom isn\'t free......But I\'ll pay so you don\'t have to.\"
9 May 2005, PFC Stephanie Spurs." text[number++] = "\"My son is too young to understand why Mommy had to go away. I told him that I was going to go save the world and protect his backyard from harm. He really likes his back yard.\"
7 May 2005, SrA Saadia Payne." text[number++] = "\"I have many disagreements with my government, and with the USPS, but thank God on high for Flat Rate boxes!\"
7 May 2005, Supporter and Mom of an AnySoldier.com contact, Frankie (LaVerne) Zehrung." text[number++] = "\"We have enough Hair color. Our female says \"what are you guys trying to tell me\" so no more of that, but they could use Gel or Hair spray..\"
5 May 2005, SSgt Mike Murrell ." text[number++] = "\"Food is never around long enough to figure out what they like or don\'t, so everything is great..\"
4 May 2005, SFC Gerald Caetano." text[number++] = "\"In iraq everything is broken and if its not broke, just wait 10 mins.\"
4 May 2005, SPC Abraham Pendon." text[number++] = "\"I don\'t have to tell you that we go thru coffee like a bunch of frat guys cramming for an exam!\"
1 May 2005, Sgt M. A. Villarreal." text[number++] = "\"To help you determine what to send I\'ve composed the TOP TEN things you can send us in Iraq list. 10. A melted 10 day old boxed melted Easter Bunny (please no).\"
29 April 2005, Gary Bourland." text[number++] = "\"I have great sand here just no ocean to go with it.\"
22 April 2005, SPC Frank Thiele." text[number++] = "\"Your really not sending packages your sending LOVE.\"
20 April 2005, SPC Darrell Jones." text[number++] = "\"All of the platoon has a slingshot now. The rats don\'t stand a chance now and the number of dead rats is getting pretty high.\"
14 April 2005, GySgt Shawn T O'Hea." text[number++] = "\"We are about 5,000 soccer balls from making Iraq a free country.\"
12 April 2005, CPT Todd Benson." text[number++] = "\"......and on the seventh day, when he saw that all was good, the Lord rest.... (this is when he sent his angels to look after everyone, and he called them, AnySoldier.com.\"
07 April 2005, SGT Richard Price." text[number++] = "\"As far as what we need, speciffically things like envelopes, stationary, pens. None of us brought anything to mail stuff home, and would rather not let our loved ones know what insensitive jerks we are.\"
06 April 2005, SPC Daniel Crimmins." text[number++] = "\"I have to admit though, that since discovering this program I have had a definite decrease in my \'slush fund\' and I couldn\'t think of a better reason to have a Dr Pepper and a cheeseburger instead of a beer and a steak!\"
6 April 2005, Tina, AnySoldier.com supporter." text[number++] = "\"Some of us got so free we forgot it was the brave who made it possible.\"
4 April 2005, Abbie, AnySoldier.com supporter." text[number++] = "\"being a Marine is awesome. sometimes its hard and u wanna quit. but for me i think of my 5 year old sister back home. i dont want her to grow up and not have to worry about terrorism. shes my motivation. so are you. thanks for your love and support.\"
02 April 2005, LCpl Christopher T. Garza." text[number++] = "\"The Buddy System Is Critical To Your Survival. It Gives The Enemy Someone Else To Shoot At.\"
2 April 2005, SFC Bradley J. O'DELL's email signature." text[number++] = "\"A big one that no one mentioned, but I think they need is foot powder and inserts. Those tents can get stinky real quick with all those stinky feet.\"
30 March 2005, Sgt Kelvin D Smith." text[number++] = "\"It\'s nice to see how much the American public supports us. It is definitely a different country from the one that sent my dad to Viet Nam.\"
30 March 2005, CPT Keith Kramer." text[number++] = "\"We also have had a serious chocolate famine and a couple of my comrades and a few females I know are going crazy.\"
29 March 2005, SPC Paul Jarrell." text[number++] = "\"For everyone\'s kindness, support and generosity, thank you. The Soldiers have never felt forgotten due to you. Your mission is accomplished. Your efforts are successful. Know that in your heart.\"
24 March 2005, CPT Lynda Gerhart." text[number++] = "\"We, unfortunately, rely on things not available to us in country to maintain high morale, esprit de corps, and mental focus. For example, Skittles...\"
17 March 2005, Marine 1LT Kim Rossiter." text[number++] = "\"As far as the outside world we really dont get to talk to our loved ones because the phones keep going down! thank god for the use of internet, and anysoldier.com\"
16 March 2005, SPC Michael Wagner." text[number++] = "\"As for requests i have many soldiers who are missing girl scout cookies, it seems that there is a lack of girl scouts out and about selling cookies here.\"
15 March 2005, 1LT William Garrison, Iraq." text[number++] = "\"I have seen tears of disbelief coming from grown men at the humble experience of open a package from a stranger and feeling the warmth of pride and concern flow out of the box top.\"
10 March 2005, GySgt Maurice Y Brown." text[number++] = "\"Our unit is composed of almost every nationality, but our cohesion is stronger than krazy glue.\"
8 March 2005, SGT Luz Rosario." text[number++] = "\"The AnySoldier program is so addicting. It\'s like the old Lay\'s Potato Chip commercials--hard to stop at one (or 5 or even 50).\"
6 March 2005, Joy Matsuura." text[number++] = "\"Congratulations on passing 2,000 contacts! Wow! When I started last June it was 139. You\'ve invented a new kind of Miracle-Gro!\"
5 March 2005, Supporter Sharon." text[number++] = "\"I can\'t wait to get back and send out some packages of my own. If someone opening one feels even a fraction of the gratitude I feel when I get a package from you all, it will have been well worth it.\"
3 March 2005, SA Jeff Tellock." text[number++] = "\"I don\'t care if your on the front line in a foxhole getting shot at or lifting crates in the rear area, you are a soldier of these United States and you deserve one hell of a hug.\"
28 February 2005, TreatAnySoldier Supporter." text[number++] = "\"once you\'ve played your games, then your buddies games, you are left with the worst enemy, boredom!(ok, after bullets and the heat, both increasing)\"
25 February 2005, SPC Scott Soulia." text[number++] = "\"The weather is our biggest headache (that I can discuss) and the mud generated by the rainy season is so much like Georgia or Kentucky clay that I almost expect my drill instructor to pop out of the ground and drop me.\"
25 February 2005, SGT James Bramell." text[number++] = "\"Finding the country and its local populace to generally be alright but the average concensus is that sanitary concerns keep the tourists away.\"
23 February 2005, PFC Ryan E van Hoy." text[number++] = "\"The Female Marines said they had no special requests, they have their hygeine gear and will mooch off of our snacks and movies/cd's\"
23 February 2005, Cpl Kyle Stanford." text[number++] = "\"You see a soldier is not a complicated individual but a very simple one all he or she needs to know that someone out there appriciates what they are doing.\"
21 February 2005, SGT Juan Valencia." text[number++] = "\"The happiest day of my life recently was the advent of the FLAT RATE BOX!!!\"
16 February 2005, Support Junkie Eileen." text[number++] = "\"I know how much the boxes we received meant to the soldiers who received so this past week I sent five care packages out to different contacts to show my appreciation for their service.\"
16 February 2005, SSG Mickela Mercado, AnySoldier contact now back in the United States." text[number++] = "\"Even my most cynical soldier has a hard time thinking that we are forgotten about with the packages that you are all sending.\"
16 February 2005, CPT Bruce Griffin" text[number++] = "\"Go Army, Hooah.\"
16 February 2005, Cpl Lisa L Greeson (a Marine!)" text[number++] = "\"In training for the coveted anysoldier.com junky position, Abbie\"
15 February 2005, Supporter Abbie Alvin" text[number++] = "\"The \"National Fabric\" of the USA is stronger than ever and your support demonstrates this.\"
14 February 2005, MAJ Reggie Bostick" text[number++] = "\"Keep the prayers coming.\"
13 February 2005, CPT Kelley Mc Intyre" text[number++] = "\"COFFEE PLEASE\"
13 February 2005, LCpl Arthur A Stuart" text[number++] = "\"To be a Soldier has its own ways of making us feel proud to be an American, but to have the people we defend and love, care for us as Soldiers makes everyday we are here a little easier.\"
9 February 2005, SFC John N. Valentine" text[number++] = "\"We get contact(with the terrorists or anti-Iraqi forces) at least a few times a week and they're usually not to pleased with the outcome.\"
8 February 2005, PFC Rich Warner" text[number++] = "\"I read your site to lift my spirits...not only from the great letters from our guys and gals overseas but from the description of the generosity of our nation. It helps to wipe out the pain of how my Dad was treated after Viet Nam. He would be so proud.\"
7 February 2005, Supporter Kim Brogan" text[number++] = "\"If anyone had doubts about our younger generations, your site would dispel that.\"
7 February 2005, Supporter Kim Brogan" text[number++] = "\"As I have told my co-workers and friends, this could quite possibly be the last act of kindness some of these kids will know on this earth.\"
4 February 2005, Supporter Viola Collins" text[number++] = "\"We enjoy the letters and gifts. Most of all we appreciate the support, thoughts and kind words.\"
3 February 2005, SSG Brian Hess" text[number++] = "\"Throw all the bombs you want at us, we're just going to keep coming.\"
3 February 2005, SGT Cody Lambert" text[number++] = "\"We have some who, much to my surprise can actually read books with out pictures :)\"
1 February 2005, SSgt Krenek" text[number++] = "\"I had to come here to see America at it\'s best.\"
30 Jan 2005, Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve, in Baghdad" text[number++] = "\"Be thankful of where you are...and who you are with. i'm spending my valentines day with a bunch of burping, farting, smelly men.\"
28 January 2005, SSG Buchanan" text[number++] = "\"We might be soldiers, but we also have hearts.\"
27 Jan 2005, SPC Neri" text[number++] = "\"Our cooking ablity is limited to boiling water and burning it in the microwave.\"
22 Jan 2005, SGT Caoili" text[number++] = "\"I\'m a Soldier stationed at the Pentagon. While every job is important I cannot express the guilt that is attached to a beltway assignment.\"
21 Jan 2005, (Better not to be named...)" text[number++] = "\"It\'s truly motivating to know that no matter how slow mail gets sometimes, it is guaranteed that someone within my unit will receive something from you all.\"
21 Jan 2005, SPC Taylorv" text[number++] = "\"We have had some snow, and lots of Rain. The Afghan\'s blamed the drought on the Russians, but I haven\'t heard them praise anyone but Allah for the Rain. Interesting.\"
21 Jan 2005, CPT Zehrung" text[number++] = "\"I\'m as liberal (and french!) as you can get. My mouth has hated this war from day one, but my heart has *always* been with the soldiers. I\'m finally putting my money not just where my mouth is but, finally, where my heart is. Thank you for this website. (yes, I\'m still crying as I write this).\"
22 Dec 2004, Pascal" text[number++] = "\"the weather here is exactly what every OTHER soldier on this website has talked about. cold, with a chance of "freeze your butt."\"
19 December 2004, SSG Buchanan" text[number++] = "\"Semper Gumby, which roughly translates into Always Flexible.\"
12 Dec 2004, Sgt Erik Turner" text[number++] = "\"There arent any female soldiers in my unit so we dont need any feminine products however scented bodywash would be nice since we all stink.\"
23 Nov 2004, SPC James C Thomas" text[number++] = "\"I never thought sending pop-tarts to the mid-east could be so empowering and life changing but it has been.\"
2 Nov 2004, A supporter." text[number++] = "\"Of course soap, razors, toothbrushes, ect. can be used because dirt is the only thing here that is easy to find.\"
30 Oct 2004, SPC Adam Nelsen" // keep adding items here... increment = Math.floor(Math.random() * number);