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MAF Blogger Danny
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November 30
0900 Hrs
Phoenix, AZ

When our bus rolled into Phoenix last night there were seven people waiting for us at our hotel, a couple and their three girls – all in girl scouts, and several members from the community and surrounding areas. One supporter even came from as far as lake Havasu. Another one of the supporters present was the owner of that white corvette from the last time we were in Phoenix, you know the one that says support our troops all over the trunk.

When we awoke this morning and the bus brought us to the capitol area where our rally was to be held, we already had 3,000 cards with us, and we got even more from the people in Phoenix who came out to our rally at the capitol. We had about 30 people come and hang out with us, and a lot of people were stopping by to drop cards off. I was kind of busy during this rally, because with all the tshirt and sweatshirt sales the last couple of days, our boxes were getting out of order, so I basically sat there the whole time (with a bit of help from Joe and Ryan) pulling boxes out of the van, counting and rearranging and putting them back in! Tedious stuff!

But we had a great response here in Phoenix, just as everywhere else. Some of those who came down also wanted to come with us to the post office. This was to be our second post office drop-off of the tour so far and since we haven’t gone to the post office in so long, it was going to be a big one!

We had a caravan of about 5 vehicles make the 15 minute drive down the city streets to the post office we had selected to send the boxes off. We arrived with our customs forms in hand and shipped over 2,000 Christmas cards today. They’ll be reaching APOs in Iraq for the next couple weeks and we’re going to keep a steady stream. Thus far we have collected an estimated 35,000 cards and shipped 2,000

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