Stay In Touch

Writing this week about ‘our Marine’....there is one other thing that I would like to mention as being very important for all our military.
Letters....mail from home....continuous.....a steady flow.....every week....non-stop. Getting mail at mail call.....hearing your name called...or not called... can make a vast difference in the moral of your loved one.

On Family Day at Parris Island we went into the Barracks where our Marine spent his three months. The Drill Sergeant assigned there to speak with family members, made the comment to our family that he had memorized Papito’s Social Security number because he had to read it so much on the mail address as he was passing out mail every day.
In an off-hand remark, Pipo said that some of the other guys asked him if they could read his mail from his family because they didn’t receive any. What a sad thought....
Now you know when you read in the newspaper about schoolchildren writing to the troops overseas.....how much it means to the receivers that...”someone cares”.....
I can tell you by first hand experience....it is a wonderful event to receive mail from ‘home’ when you are far from home. If your letters only tell about the regular routine of everyday life.....it fills the heart with gladness that people love and remember you as a vital part of their life.

In Pipo’s case, every letter that I wrote to him....I scanned a family picture or two on the page. These and others were taped to the inside top of his foot locker when we viewed his barracks. A part of Home.....away from home.

Now I would say to you...family and friends....remember those from our family and others who are far away....be a ‘letter writing missionary’....to someone. It means the world to them.....when....people care and....
.......Stay In Touch!