boomersooner28
12/29/2008, 10:16 AM
My wife's little sister Andrea is in the Air Force and was just shipped to Afghanistan with the Army. She is a medic and has been at work over there for just 2 days. She just wrote her mom (my mother-n-law) and this is what she had to say about the situation over there.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Merry Christmas!
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:12:40 -0700
i love my job!! only worked two days but already we have to do gate runs its where we go to the gate and get afgans that need medical attention. oh mom they are the cutest kids! there older brothers (which means like 5-6 yrs) carry there brothers and sisters like smaller then a yr to like 18 mths in. i guess here as a form of punishment there parents burn them. we had a little girl with her whole bottom hand burned off almost. burns on the thighs. then today we had one with an absess. we give them ointment and antibiotics but they normaly do not come back. we have a liguist that is an afgan dr.
oh yeah last night the alarms went off so we had to hurry and get to a bunker with all are iba on. come to find out there was a suicide bomber that killed all this kids. you can look at it on cnn. the dr that is are linguist was there to help. he told us about it. it is so sad here mom. we try to leave the kids with new socks and shoes and a toy. it is so cold here that we do not want them to leave with nothing on. if you can ask around and see if anyone has old baby clothes. shoes mostly, toys, remember no pigs. it would help so much. here is my address
andrea wenzel
C. 634TH CTF
Camp Phoenix APO AE 09320
Such a sad situation. My wife and I are gathering items to ship over. Peem me if you would like to donate.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Merry Christmas!
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:12:40 -0700
i love my job!! only worked two days but already we have to do gate runs its where we go to the gate and get afgans that need medical attention. oh mom they are the cutest kids! there older brothers (which means like 5-6 yrs) carry there brothers and sisters like smaller then a yr to like 18 mths in. i guess here as a form of punishment there parents burn them. we had a little girl with her whole bottom hand burned off almost. burns on the thighs. then today we had one with an absess. we give them ointment and antibiotics but they normaly do not come back. we have a liguist that is an afgan dr.
oh yeah last night the alarms went off so we had to hurry and get to a bunker with all are iba on. come to find out there was a suicide bomber that killed all this kids. you can look at it on cnn. the dr that is are linguist was there to help. he told us about it. it is so sad here mom. we try to leave the kids with new socks and shoes and a toy. it is so cold here that we do not want them to leave with nothing on. if you can ask around and see if anyone has old baby clothes. shoes mostly, toys, remember no pigs. it would help so much. here is my address
andrea wenzel
C. 634TH CTF
Camp Phoenix APO AE 09320
Such a sad situation. My wife and I are gathering items to ship over. Peem me if you would like to donate.