Attention: Patriot Guard Riders

Christmas in July for the B & F -Co of the 1-8Th Cav July 8,2007 14:00-15:00

We have been talking with our contacts at Ft. Hood about doing a Christmas in July for the 1-8Th Cav in Iraq. As you may call recall, last Christmas Ft. Hood asked if we could sponsor Christmas for F-Co of the 1/8Th Cav and we only had 3 days to do it. The SE Texas & Austin PGR responded with 2800lbs in gifts that we got sent out in 3 days and they made it to Iraq for Christmas. We sent so much that not only did we cover F-Co but also some of the other companies in the 1-8Th received gifts from us. All the items we sent them for Christmas are long gone.

The 1-8Th has been one of the hardest hit units in Iraq and has suffered many causalities. Sgt Green, who we stood tall & silent for, was from the B-Co 1-8Th. We will send our gifts to F & B-Companies of the 1/8th. Let's show these companies in 1/8Th that we have not forgotten them!

Our shopping day will be this Sunday July the 8Th. It takes 10 to 14 days to get to Iraq and for this to be a Christmas in July I know some of our members will be on vacations, gift you can not make it to the designated shopping areas then please help us out with the shipping cost. For Christmas it cost us $1500 to mail all the gifts to Iraq. We need contributions to cover the mailing cost just as much as we need the gifts.

To make contributions to help cover the postage:

Make Checks out to :

Mario Bunster
SE Texas Treasurer
"1/8Th Postage" in the MEMO area.

Send Checks to: (no cash)

John Darner
C/O PC&L
7125 W. Tidwell Ste L-106
Houston, TX 77092

This is our shopping list from Ft. Hood, please stay close to it!

We will have a PGR flag at each location for members to sign that will be sent to Iraq with our gifts.

  • Sunflower seeds
  • Canned nuts, trail mix
  • Rice crispy treats
  • Candy (hard candy to give out to kids)
  • Cookies
  • Boxed snacks
  • Slim Jim's
  • Beef jerky
  • Q-tips
  • Batteries ( AA's and AAA's)
  • Flash Lights
  • Battery powered fans
  • Black & Tan female hair scrunchies
  • Magazines ( hot rod, bike, fishing, hunting, football)
  • Razors
  • Lever 2000 bar soap
  • Dove body wash
  • Shaving cream (female & male)
  • Air Fresheners
  • Calf-length & ankle length socks
  • Tobacco (long cut & straight) Smokeless
  • Gum
  • Small American flags
  • Small toys to give out to children

Date: Sunday July 8th 2PM-3PM

Shopping locations:

  • North side
    • Wal-Mart Super-center Store #5287
    • 21150 Kuykendahl Rd, Spring, TX 77379
    • Ride Captains:
      • Rev Brian Jones revbriankjones@army.com 713-582-8289
      • Larry "Breeze" Ormond lkormand@hughes.net 281-251-6249
  • Northwest
    • Wal-Mart Super-Center (290 & Tidwell)
    • 13484 Northwest Fwy, Houston, TX 77040
    • Ride Captains:
      • Rick "Windrider" Cunningham windrider.127@peoplepc.com cell: 281-384-6770
      • John "JohnnyD" Darner pgrrchouston@yahoo.com cell 713-817-8112
  • Southwest
    • Wal-Mart Super-center Store #772
    • 3506 South Loop E, Houston, TX 77021
    • Ride Captains:
      • Todd "DisGuy" Greer jtgreer@houston.rr.com 281-773-8060
      • Mario "Kaoz" Bunster kaozrider@yahoo.com 713-545-2850
  • Southeast
    • Wal-Mart Supercenter El Dorado at IH 45
    • 150 W El Dorado Blvd, Friendswood, TX 77546
    • Ride Captains:
      • Vicky "Venti" Keller vicky.keller@sbcglobal.net 832-216-5446
      • Jerry "egtWarrior" Turner egtwarrior25@sbcglobal.net 713-540-0632
Instructions:
Please meet at the front of one of the stores by 2pm to shop for our troops. There will be a truck at each location. At 3:30 the trucks will leave for the warehouse to unload and box up the gifts. We will need volunteers during the week to bring all the boxes to the post office (northwest side), more details on that later.

Please join us as we show our appreciation to our troops with this Christmas in July gift drive.

Follow this tread on the PGR web site: http://www.patriotguard.org/ALLForums/tabid/61/forumid/111/view/topic/postid/569171/Default.aspx