Hey DU-ers--- Help out SGT Borges in Iraq!

[TexasLawyer]

A lot of kids in Iraq live in abject poverty and do not have shoes. If you have some shoes that your own kids have grown out of, or if you see a pile of them at a garage sale for not too much money, put them in a box and mail them to Sgt. Borges.

Mail to APOs and FPOs costs the same as domestic mail. If the shoes are heavy, then put them in a USPS "flat rate" box that can be sent to Iraq for $8.10. Kids also need pencils, pens, paper, toys... other kid stuff.

Throw in some beef jerky or Oreos or crosswords for the guys too! SGt. Borges and his men are very nice to be thinking only about the kids, but I'm sure they wouldn't mind a little something.

My family and I send out a box about every week to different groups of soldiers who we find through AnySoldier. We've gotten to meet a lot of really nice military personnel this way. Some of them are really suffering, and get little mail.


Iraq
- U. S. Army -
SGT Hector J. Borges
FPO AE
(Click HERE to request the complete address.)http://www.anysoldier.com/WhereToSend/

Added here: 03 May 2006
Expected to leave Iraq: 15 Nov 2006
Where in Iraq: Baghdad
Contact for approx number of Males: 24, Females: 0
Unit is from: Germany

From the Soldier:

03 May 2006:

We are living on a building, electricity is 220, we have laundry service and microwave. Is not that bad, (the wors part is missing our families and kids),but thats enough about me.

The main thing that I'm trying to do is get stuffs for the kids in here ie. clothing, food, but specially shoes (mainly sandals thats what they use). They needed more than us. Most of us have people that send us stuff but this kids don't have anything. Some of their parents do bad stuffs to US forces but they don't have to pay the price for what their parents do. they are just kids.

Other than that send what ever you want. I put the number of soldiers in the aplication, thats my unit but like I said for us send what ever you want or don't send at all. But for them kids please send stuffs. Thanks for the help, and you know that God is going to repay you back what you are doing today. Thanks again and "GOD BLESS AMERICA".

[RagingInMiami]

1. Hector Borges?

What is he, some kind of immigrant?

[TexasLawyer]

2. Probably!!

Sheesh, the nerve of these people coming over here and sponging off America! AND taking the jobs away from Americans. Hey-- I wanted to have that combat assignment.
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[RagingInMiami]

5. And asking Americans to send their hard-earned money to Iraq to help out

brown children. It's bad enough all the Mexicans send all their money to Mexico, but this? Of all the nerve.

[TexasLawyer]

6. yeah, those people

all stick together. Scary! :sarcasm:

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Recommended!

Very noble what you and your family do for the troops! :thumbsup:

[TexasLawyer]

4. I've sent a lot of my kids' stuff

to Iraq and Afghanistan. It's weird (but somewhat cool) to think that those shoes and those clothes that my children used to wear are walking around in towns and villages all over the Middle East.