I have a Pen Pal fighting in Iraq

**chrispghmuscle** · 11-30-2007, 02:19 PM

Just thought I would let you guys know that my family has adopted a service man fighting in Iraq..

His name is LCPL Goldsmith,, he is ( I believe ) 18 years old and we send him personal supplies that take about 10 days to get to his squad. He is also married and his wife is in the Navy serving in the War also.

When we go shopping at Wal-Mart of some other place, we buy a few extra things every time we are there, then come home pack the items up and when the box is packed full we send the box over to the address he supplies to us.

Unfortunately he does not communcate a great deal with us. We have only received one letter so far from him in the past. I do know that he is alive and is now back in Hawaii at his post, he is there until his next deployment to the desert.

He's actually my son's penn pal and we write to him in my son's behalf. Actually I type everything up and send it to him in the flat rate US postal box.

It gives me a great deal of honor and happiness to do this for someone I don't even know or have ever seen before in my life. Seeing how he is 18 and I'm 40 and have 2 kids. I feel for the guy being away from his wife and family.

I do think about the young guy often and hope that he returns safetly to his wife and parents soon.

Chris

**Freak** · 11-30-2007, 02:42 PM

God bless him and his family. That is very noble of you to do Chris. The members of the military need to know we support them.

**chrispghmuscle** · 11-30-2007, 02:50 PM

Yeah that was one of the reasons we did it. One to show our son what it means to do this type of giving and the point of doing so.

Teaching him early in life so he carries it into his adult life about giving.

**Freak** · 11-30-2007, 02:51 PM

Nominate Chris for Dad of the Year!

**chrispghmuscle** · 11-30-2007, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Freak

Nominate Chris for Dad of the Year!

( Chuckling ) your too much freak, to much, very kind of you to say it..

echoscot · 11-30-2007, 07:24 PM

That is totally awesome. Inspiring too. I hope that more guys there know how much we all appreciate them.

And Freak is right, what a great way to teach your son, respect and giving and self-sacrifice.

**YM123** · 11-30-2007, 07:26 PM

chris you just keep getting better and better, your a great bloke that many of us look up to.

mindgame · 11-30-2007, 10:41 PM

ill pray for his safe return..right now i have a friend going to iraq in jan and another leaving in june. im just waiting for my name to be called. support the troops cause in real life we have no choice to fight or not but we all knew what we were signing up for.

echoscot · 11-30-2007, 11:43 PM

^Stay tough, Mindgame. It is hard, so you're in our thoughts and prayers.

Beefcake · 12-01-2007, 12:15 AM

Give him my well wishes Chris. It's truly a noble thing to defend your country.

**chrispghmuscle** · 12-01-2007, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by YM123

chris you just keep getting better and better, your a great bloke that many of us look up to.

My feeling is this, I always try to conduct myself as thou my mom is in the room. She made me the person / man that I am today. I feel it's only right to do these things.

Chris