Email and thank a Marine
Posted: Friday, August 10, 2007 by Travis Cody inThis is pretty important to me, so I've decided to make it a sticky post for the week. Please take a few extra moments while you're here to send an email to the address you'll find below. Then scroll on down for things like Manic Monday, a meme tag, Dance recaps and results, and Thursday 13.
I really appreciate your help with this.
I just paid a visit over at The Ice Box, where Desert Songbird has posted about a project to send email to Marines.
She writes:
I received an e-mail from hubby last night with news that I thought needed passing along. From the blog "Atlas Shrugs" comes this request:
"US Marine Colonel Simcock, the commander of USMC Regimental Combat Team 6 in Iraq, is asking for 6,000 positive emails to his Marines. That's one email for each Marine in his RCT command. COL Simcock is concerned about the effect of the negative barrage that those Marines are getting through the electronic media. I've attached an excerpt from an interview with him. So far, they've only mustered 2,000 emails. That's a crying shame compared to the amount of crap I get daily in email. "This is a legitimate request. It's not one of the "little Johnny wants to break the world's record in Christmas cards" situations. It takes only 30 seconds of your time. Here's the address:
RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil
It doesn't have to be the Gettysburg Address. Something as simple as "Hello, Marine. We thank you for what you're doing. You are in a noble task. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Best wishes & get home soon" is more than sufficient.
I sent an email. Won't you take a few minutes and do the same? These Marines are in service to us, doing their duty and making sacrifices to serve. Whatever your feelings about the war in Iraq, please set them aside and thank the Marines who go into harm's way when ordered to do their duty.
Semper Fi.
I sent my email. Everyone knows that I loathe the war. In no small part because I think it abuses the loyalty of our soldiers, who I hold in high regard.