12 Days of Christmas from Iraq from a US Marine's point of view

As many of you know Jeremy our son is currently in Iraq. His emails and photos are posted at Iraq Diaries. But he also loves to make movies and although he cannot post many of these till he returns from Iraq because of security issues he has been inspired to post his latest video made while in the field. Moved by the season and his love for Christmas he got the guys in his platoon to sing the 12 Days of Christmas. Not everyone was as enthusastic as Jeremy as you will see. But a great chance to see the morale of these young men who are in harms way and how they deal with it. Jeremy is the one with the dirty Santa hat singing the 2nd day of Christmas towards the end.
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Soccer is a common language

 

 As many of you know our son Jeremy is in Iraq. you can read his emails at Iraq Diaries. They see a lot of kids as you may have noticed from his photos. Recently Iraq did really well in an Asian soccer competition and for a brief moment it united the country as you may have seen or read on the news.

Well the kids ask Jeremy if he has any soccer balls.

                                   soccer balls

So Trudy, has decided to collect soccer balls and small pumps to send them over to Jeremy to give out. Used balls are great and many people have some sitting in their garages. If you can deflate them and send them to us wonderful. Our office address is Long & Foster Real Estate, 92 Lancaster Avenue, Devon, PA 19333. Mark your box for the attention of Trudy Vandekar and we will get them shipped to Jeremy.

If you are attending the Active Rain get together being organized by Jeff Belonger in Philadelphia you can bring them there as well and we will collect them and thank you in person.

Thanks to all in advance.

 

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