Cookies, Girl Scouts, Our Troops and Smiles

--by pdayers, posted Oct 21, 2010

Some of the women at my work had been hit up to buy cookies from some Girl Scouts they knew. We wanted to support the young girls but we were all working on losing weight. We were wondering what to do when we got the idea to send the cookies to the troops overseas.

My daughter was serving in Iraq when this happened. I packaged them up in a care package and sent them out to my daughter's unit. My daughters unit enjoyed them so much and we got lots of appreciative letters and emails from them. It was so lovely to receive all of those and see what an impact a small gesture on our part had had.

They were flying a flag at their unit and told us they were going to bring it home for us to fly here.

What a blessing was brought out by wanting to support one cause by buying cookies and bringing smiles and love to another cause!

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Posted by pdayers
Oct 21, 2010
Comments (6)

Readers Comments

bookworm58 wrote: I know soldier overseas would love to get girl scout cookies in a care package. Lets see who can send them especially for the holidays coming up. It would show how much we all care while their overseas fighting for our freedom. I pray that they all come home safe.

Tina wrote: This is a great idea.

bookworm58 wrote: That is a wonderful story. Its a great idea and i will check into doing that for my soldier pen pals too. Know they would love to get the cookies very much.

charlie wrote: Great idea. You can do the same with the popcorn the boy scouts are selling; some of the boy scout troops will even ship the popcorn for you!

Sydney wrote: This is such a wonderful and creative idea - your thoughtfulness allowed you to help a great cause, make the unit happy and avoid the extra calories :)

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