“I just wanted to say thank you for the packages. 

The muppets and beanie babies have all been distributed to all the children we ran across Mosul while on patrol on New Years Day. Kids were happy to recieve such wonderful gifts from us, but its the wonderful and generous people like you, that made these kids get a smile on there face. 

Sometimes we feel bad when we run out of things to give out, but we know in our heart, we gave out all we had. 

Our stock pile has grown again from other people. We give out things like, soccer balls, candy, stuffed animals, hot wheels cars, and dolls. We constantly give stuff away and try to hit up every kid we see. 

So thank you very much for the time you took to help us with our job, and putting smiles on kids faces, and adults. 

Thank you.” 

-- SPC Kessler