About pillowcases.......
I talked to my DD tonight and found out, for example, that her DH's foot locker with his own travel pillow packed in it, did not make it to the forward operating base in Farah after they arrived in early August. The group's shipment of personal goods is STILL hung up in Pakistan, apparently due to the catastrophic flooding. No info on when they will arrive! She knows he is sleeping with a rolled up jacket as pillow right now; not sure about rest of the men but she assumes they are in the same boat (or camel, considering the location <wink>).
She reminds me that these men have no water pump - it's broken, being fixed - and so have no washing facilities for clothes or bodies. He took a "shower" today with 3 bottles of water -- the first in a week!!
Pillowcases under sweaty, sandy, dusty, dirty heads and faces would quickly be truly gross. The men might remove a quilt from the surface of their bed, but not likely a pillowcase.
For now, I'd like to focus energies on quilts, as Bert requested. Perhaps we can surprise them with that pillowcase idea in the spring if we get them all covered with huggable warm-fuzzies first.
Thanks,
Jan in VA