For our HS Home Economics holiday project for Thanksgiving and Christmas in our senior year we had to bake cookies and send them to the USO in Vietnam for our troops to enjoy. We each placed 2 cookies flat sides together and wrapped them in cellophane and filled coffee cans with them. We were each instructed to put our name and address in the coffee can so the service man that received them could write us a thank you note. When the coffee cans got to the USO they were placed in large garbage cans (clean and used for storage only). Each soldier visiting was told he could take a can of cookies. My DH received my coffee can filled with chocolate chip cookies. He wrote a very nice thank you note and told me a little about himself and asked if I would mind writing to him. We continued writing, and I continued sending baked goods, for a year before he was sent stateside to the base at the Presidio in San Francisco (his request) where I was then going to computer programming school. We dated for a year before we married in June of 1969. It's been 42 years now and he still loves telling people that he found me in a garbage can.
Ann in TN