Willie's Corner

Dear Angels and Friends,

Your boxes are arrived! Thank you very much for all your support over the last year!

We are so proud of you! Without your donations and sponsorship, we could not take so much backpacks to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center or microwave food to the Kleber Barracks.

In 2005 we brought 796 backpacks and 239 bags (with personal items, candies and clothes) to the wounded soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, to the Fisher House, to the Marines, to the National Guard and to the Ramstein Inn (DWMMC).

We brought a lot of microwave food to the coffee bar at the Kleber Barracks in Kaiserslautern , over 100 pairs of shoes to the Chaplains Office Landstuhl, over 750 Christmas Stockings to Kleber and Landstuhl and more.

If you like to read more about our visits in Landstuhl this year look at Soldiers Angels Germany:
http://www.sablogs.com/index.php?blog=40&cat=232

And about our visits at the Kleber Barracks look here:
http://www.sablogs.com/index.php?blog=40&cat=234

So instead we'll just wish you and your family a great new 2006 and a Happy New Year.

God Bless you and your family!

Willie
Wilhelmine Aufmkolk
International President, Soldiers' Angels

Our German Angels also report: “We prepared 3 boxes of candy and cards for the outpatient barracks at Ramstein Inn and Fisher House….and eight folders with hundreds of Valentine's Day Greetings From Home were collected from Angels and placed at Kleber outpatient barracks, Ramstein Inn outpatient barracks, Fisher House, and the wards at Landstuhl Hospital. Each folder had 254 Valentine messages!”

Soldiers’ Angels also helped to get over 100 Get Well and support messages to the 3 Canadian troops who were severely injured in Afghanistan and who were treated at Landstuhl, by working together with our contacts at Landstuhl and a Canadian blogger. You can see the story (and the messages) at http://wakinguponplanetx.blogspot.com/2006/01/our-injured-soldiers.html.

Willie received a wonderful thank you from a wounded sailor for the collections of Christmas greetings from home that were placed in the hospital and outpatient barracks. Please visit http://sablogs.com/index.php?blog=40&title=a_thank_you_from_a_wounded_sailer&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 for this message of appreciation and gratitude.
Read about our German Angels’ Christmas visit to Landstuhl (http://sablogs.com/index.php?blog=40&title=christmas_at_landstuhl_hospital&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1)

The ladies share a recap of their January 19 visit to Landstuhl here (http://www.brandonblog.homestead.com/files/2005_01_23_archive.html)

And, always, our German friends always welcome donations to help them carry on their mission of supporting the patients at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, which includes the outpatient barracks at Kleber. Here is a list of their current needs:

For the Kleber outpatient barracks we are currently requesting donations of:
- Shower Gel
- Toothbrushes & Toothpaste
- Mouthwash
- Deoderant
- FlipFlops to wear while showering (large sizes)
- Knit or fleece caps- Small stuffed animals
- Microwaveable meals, snacks, fruit cups (soldiers often arrive at Kleber from Iraq or Afghanistan in the evenings after regular meal hours)

Please send items to:
21st TSC, Medical Transient Detachment
ATTN: Soldiers’ Angels
UNIT 23203
APO AE 09263

Important:
- Please notify them when items are shipped at maryann.phillips at gmail.com .
- Include a card with your name, Email address, and short description of items sent in your packages. Without this information, they will be unable to confirm their receipt.

All donations are delivered directly through Willie or MaryAnn to Landstuhl hospital and Kleber Barracks.