My adoptee!

I am now a proud angel to Kat, my hero overseas. I was given her email address along with her information and promptly sent her an email to introduce myself and let her know I was already collecting some items to send her way. To my total surprise, she emailed me back within a few hours! She is unable to email for the next week because she is at a different post covering for another soldier, but I'm sure I'll hear back from here a lot more after that. I went on a little shopping spree and got some feminine and girl stuff for her. I almost feel like I'm doing more than they expect, but if it were up to me I'd send $100 worth of stuff in one shot. Too bad I'm not rich.

I am about to head over to Target, when they open, to pick up some stuff for another team of 19 soldiers who are running out of food and supplies. It's pretty ridiculous that we're still funding this war beyond belief and yet our troops aren't even getting simple necessities. Some of them get chances to buy from a PX (a mini store for basic items) but by the time a new shipment comes in, it sells out almost immediately due to demand. I look around my room and see all this shit that I have and have access to, and I almost feel ashamed! I have about 10 different bottles of lotions, 4-5 different shampoos and crap, and just all this excess. It really is a wake-up call. Anything that I haven't used that is worth sending, I'm shipping out in my first package.

Also, yesterday, I was informed that after all that Rosie O'Donnell drama with her supposedly calling our troops "terrorists" she ended up donating money to Soldiers' Angels. I'm not sure how much, but considering her bankroll I'm positive it's going to make a small difference in the least. I think she is an incredible humanitarian and never really thought she was calling our troops the bad guys. They're just doing their jobs... they're ordered to be there and do what is told of them. The people who should be held accountable for any mistakes or faults are the politicians, high officers, and policies that control the military and what they do.

According to prospective, this year of 2007 will be the deadliest in the war. They project by year's end that we will lose 1000+ troops. That is FAR more than the 849 of 2004. It's just so sad to hear. The month of May is already the 3rd deadliest in the war as well... and we still have today.