I just got this letter from Montana Marine today.
19 March 2003
Jim,
Just got your letter today. Thanks for your generosity and support. Things are happening fast here now. Lance Corporal Nystrom is the marine I gave the silver dollar to. I also gave him your letter and instructed him that it is his duty to write you a letter and thank you. I also gave him the excel spreadsheet and told him to use it.
We are packed up tight right now. Ready to go, loaded and cocked to cross the L.O.D. We have absolutely no room to pack more stuff. A lot of care packages are being left behind in our rear area in Kuwait. But your generosity is appreciated.
Say hello for me to the rest of the campfire. By the time you get this letter, things will be happening, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.....
Hopefully this wil go quick and easy with not to much death and destruction, but only time will tell, and time is so short at this moment. I barely got your letter and am scribbling this letter minutes before heading north to our attack positions.
Thanks again. I look forward to getting home and back to "normal" life. I will definately post on the "campfire" when this is over and I get home. Feel free to share this with the campfire.
Montana Marine
2MEB "Task Force Tarawa"
