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

How very sad that our troops don't even have a pillow to lay their heads on.

I received 2 soldier quilts today from Mrs. Carroll, Shamrock, Okla. but I don't know her board name to send a PM. Can anyone help?

Please be sure to attach your contact info so I can be sure to let you know your tops/quilts have arrived in VA and be able to thank you!
Jan in VA

Also, Susan Laughton from CA sent an aqua,orange, and yellow soldier quilt. I love that you are all so faithful in getting these quilts out! Thank you, thank you!

Please PM me so I can thank you personally.

Jan in VA

I received a quilt today from Janice H-- in McCune, --. But I do not know/remember her user name to thank her.

If there are any here who know her, please have her PM me; I am very grateful and really want to let her know it has arrived safely!

Thanks,
Jan in VA

A completed soldier quilt arrived today from Fiske in Gretna; I don't know the user name to thank her, but I am so grateful! It's pretty darn cute, too; wish I could get pics of these for all of you.

Please have her PM me if you know who I mean.

Jan in VA

will send you a PM on one of the missing quilter's names.