We just need to keep remembering these soldiers. Even the guys that are coming home safely, they are changed. You can’t expect to be in a whole different country, in a different culture, and daily...

I asked him if he would, without making a big deal about it, get me the names of some of the ones that may not get much mail.

I sent boxes to him (Fitzwater) and asked him to distribute boxes as he saw fit. Soldiers would send a thank you note and often add another name.

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don’t respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

It’s much closer to my heart since I personally went through the trauma of having a son that was being shot at everyday. And there’s just a whole range of emotion with the pain of...