The Chaplain’s Closet – Stocked with donated items

SSG E. from the Marine Liaison Office took us to the so-called Chaplain’s Closet, which looks like a very small shop and is stocked with donated items. There are racks of clothing like fleece shirts and windbreakers. Shelves line the walls with pajamas, T-Shirts, socks, boxers, toiletry essentials, small blankets, books, playing cards, and athletic shoes. We noted that empty backpacks are also needed for the patients to transport their belongings.

The nine Chaplains currently on staff at LRMC and some volunteers operate the store as a service to wounded soldiers who are medevac’d from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait to LRMC. On the weekends, the Chaplain’s Closet is open only when new patients arrive.
While we were there, a bus of medevac’d soldiers arrived. In most cases, they had little with them other than the uniforms they were wearing. These ambulatory patients are able to come through and get some basic necessities.

All of the items are donated by companies, organizations, and individuals. A Chaplain told us, "All donations are only new merchandise, not secondhand, because hospital sanitation rules apply."

Many thanks to L.P.I. Consumer Products, Inc. for their generous and ongoing donations of ShaveMate razors!

Thank you AMVETs for your support!

Earlier this month I received this from a wounded Marine:

Hello, I'm Jason P, a Cpl in the Marines. I would like to take some time to say "Thank You".

Thank you for all your support in our times of hardship. I among many, many others appreciate the time, care and kindness you show to the Armed Forces.

It's always nice in the end of a long and "could be my last day" day that I or anyone I know receiving letters, cards, or boxes from Soldiers Angels.

Again thank you for support. Take care and God bless.
Jason P
USMC

Together, American and German Angels and friends support the wounded soldiers here at LRMC. Our next visit is at the end of August.

Please Email me if you would like to help!

Willie
Wilhelmine Aufmkolk - International President
Soldiers Angels

A great looking bunch of heroes in the mess hall...

Major Juan out for a bike ride...

And the Iraq War Today version of "Where's Waldo"......"Where's Juan?"

Can you spot the Major? (Click for larger version)

Thank you and HOOAH!! to The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Minimus.biz, a Soldiers’ Angels partner since 2004 (See “Successful Partnership Between a Profit and a Non-Profit Company”), and to all Angels and Friends who have made donations for Phone Cards!!

Received 60 phone cards today in the mail from the Soldiers Angels. Also received another 16 pounds of coffee.Thanks again.

First of all, I want to thank you for the great support you have given us in the form of the Soldiers’ Angel Backpacks. To date we have issued 17 filled backpacks to arriving inpatient soldiers. I have also provided twenty empty backpacks to the chaplain’s closet to cover a period when they ran out of duffel bags.

Soldiers really appreciate the thoughtfulness that goes in to filling and providing one of the backpacks! Thanks again for your thoughtfulness and support. One soldier recently told me that if it were not for the backpack and its contents he would have had to go naked for the weekend until he could have gotten off the ward and down to the chaplain’s closet.

Thank you!
MAJ H.

Although most ambulatory patients are able to go to LRMC facilities such as the Chaplain’s Closet and select donated items they need, many inpatients are not. These inpatients are bare brought items by Chaplains and Liaison Officers such as MAJ H.

Please support our continuing efforts to provide Transitional Backpacks for our wounded Heroes who are inpatients at Landstuhl Hospital. EMail Willie if you would like to help.

Willie Wilhelmine Aufmkolk -International President
Soldiers Angels
"May No Soldier Go Unloved"
http://www.soldiersangels.org


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