09 Feb 2008
          
Hi Julieann,
            
how are you ? My name is Chasity Brimer.  You recently sent me a care package here in  Iraq.   Thank you ever so much, you have really made things a whole lot easier, believe me.  We don't have any places here to buy much of anything, so my only way of getting things is through mail.   I'm a mechanic, so those wipes you sent me will really come in handy.
              
Thank you and God Bless,
         
Chasity                    

Lady Soldier

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These are from Lt. Matthew Reeves in Iraq with his marines 
                 
From: Reeves 1stLt Matthew H (TQ 1/11 A BTRY XO)
Date: 1/20/2008 7:16:19 AM
Subject: We're Still Here!!!
              
I know I've dropped off the face of the earth for the last few weeks, my apologies if I made
you nervous that anything had happened to me or my unit.   We are all alive, safe, and well... but still in Iraq until the end of April. 
           
We've recently had a lot of activity around our area and a lot of special projects and
operations have pulled me off of my normal hours to get back to you on the e-mail or by letter.   Also, my wife recently gave birth to our first kid, a girl, so I've been using every free moment I've had to corresponding with her.
                
Thank you so much for the continued support you've shown to me and my unit.   Over the Christmas holidays your outpouring of care, love, and support meant a great deal to me and my Marines.   A lot of Marines did not get Christmas presents from friends or family and it was really nice to be able to give them a little something on Christmas morning, thanks to your generosity. 
              
As our mission continues here in Iraq and the next few months come and go, please know in advance, the appreciation that I have for all that you have done and continue to do to support my Marines. 
                
I've included a picture collage of my Marines (some fun pictures and some while "working"), a picture of me, a photo of some snow we recently had fall, and an image of our battery emblem. 
            
Semper Fidelis and God Bless You,
        
Very respectfully,
           
1stLt Matthew H. Reeves
          
Archangel 5
1/11, Btry A
Unit 40425
FPO AP 96426-0425
Al Taqaddum, Iraq.
          
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.   The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, comes up short again and again, because there is not effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds: who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; 
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
        
Theodore Roosevelt, Paris, 1910