Please Help out a Soldier

[1marineslady]

I GOT THIS EMAIL FROM A FRIEND OF MINE. PLEASE AT LEAST PRAY FOR THIS YOUNG
MAN. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND A CARD THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL TOO!




Severely Wounded hero at Brook Army Medical who needs letters please
Please take the time to help out a fellow soldier in dire need.

JOHNNY JOHNSON, SSgt, TXSG 4th AW
Security Forces Flight
436th Air Support Group
Adjunct: 4th AW Honor Guard Adjunct: 301st FW Honor Guard


To all my friends who support me with my efforts to help our wounded.
Please write to this young man below.
I am going to try to meet this soldier and it would be very nice if
you would send him a card and let him know you are praying for him.


There is a young soldier (a 23 year old Tennessee National Guardsman)
named Sgt. Kevin Downs. He was blown out of his tank in Baghdad a
year ago and left with no feet, mangled arms, and burns over 60% of
his body. He is a Tennessee boy. Everyone else in the tank was killed.
His condition is not good. A surgery to improve the use of fingers on
one hand inadvertently caused previous skin grafts to break d! own,
and the grafts on his legs are cracking as well and may require
beginning over at square one. Kevin is tired and low in spirits. He
needs our prayers and support through cards. Would you please send
him a note or card to let him know you are thinking about him?
Remember him in your prayers as well.
Now I am going to ask a special favor from me. Would you please send
this to as many people that you can in your e-mail addresses? Hit
FORWARD and let my e-mail introduce Kevin to your e-mail buddies. I
would love to see him get cards from everywhere and hopefully he will
know that people all over the country appreciate him leaving the
safety of his home and country and fighting for our freedoms. I
personally have never met Kevin or his family but when my minister
let us know that Kevin needed a lift, I couldn't keep quiet. I love
America and know that it could very well be one of my family members.
Thank you for all that you will do. His address is:

Sgt. Kevin Downs
4 East
Brooke Army Medical Center
Bldg 3600
3851 Roger Brooke Dr.
Fort Sam Houston TX 78234-6200

[V8403]

YOU GOT IT

[MadMax]

I'm on it also.

[MadMax]

That's a good point. How would we go about verifying his location? They won't release that information to you will they? For privacy reasons?

[MadMax]

Strange. I thought you couldn't do that. Either way, I think I may try and send this guy a little note of encouragement. Depends on if I can get my lazy butt to the store.

[MadMax]

Okay, thanks. I'll try and get to that. My heard goes out to this guy.

[1marineslady]

The other thing that they might do is call the patient if they are getting a lot of mail for him and ask him if he wants to come and pick it up since it is a military hospital. I know I had sent him a letter about a week and a half ago and didnt get it back so hopefully he got it.

[MadMax]

Well that's good news. Too bad he doesn't have email.

[MadMax]

At least in the Army you have someone designated as the mail clerk with actual training. The Marines usually cross train a tanker, grunt or cannon cocker on light duty to push mail. That's why it never gets to you...

[Lauren's Soldier Boi]

Even to back up their soldiers?

[MadMax]

Actually the Army uses civilians for the mail. Just like they use civilians for about everything else.
That's just wrong. Why is it that they get all the money for stuff like that?

[MadMax]

WHOA. How much of that is because we have so many troops deployed?

[MadMax]

That's sick. No wonder our defense budget is through the roof. I wonder what civilian payroll is... Aren't you supposed to be taking it easy today?