Conn. Girl Scouts want to send cookies to troops

[thedrifter]

March 11, 2003

Conn. Girl Scouts want to send cookies to troops

Associated Press


MILFORD, Connecticut ? Boxes of thin mints will soon be on their way to the far corners of the globe.
Girl Scouts in seven Connecticut cities have begun a drive to get the public to donate $3 so that a box of their cookies can be sent to U.S. troops in Kuwait, Guam and South Korea.

?Because of the state of affairs, we want to remind the soldiers that we care for them,? said Kate Cosgrove, a spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts Housatonic Council. ?This brings them a little bit of home.?

With a week to go in the campaign, scouts from Milford, Stratford, Bridgeport, Trumbull, Easton, Fairfield and Monroe have raised money for nearly 5,000 boxes.

Master Chief Petty Officer Richard Iannucci, a senior enlisted adviser of the Navy?s First Naval Construction Division, said little things can make a soldier?s day.

?Any time you get something from home, it just helps you think about family and friends,? he said Tuesday.


Sempers,

Roger

[Drywall]

Mornin Roger,
This has been going in MN for the last two years. Our Legion post bought several cases from them to send over. Last year over 12,000 cases of cookies were sent overseas from MN. alone. One of the gals here at work is a GS leader and said it is a real popular program. All you have to do is pay for the cookies and the GS takes care of everything else. It couldn't be any easier.

[DMZ-LT]

Even if only for a few minutes , sharing your "care" package from home with your brothers made life wonderful and complete.