Coffee is one of the things craved by US troops
When you’re away from home, there are many little things that you miss. Home cooking, family and friends, a few of your little daily treats, for example. However, for the US troops who are overseas, the reports are that coffee is one of the things which they love to receive when away from home.
In Milford in the United States, for example, the families at Milford Cooperative School are organising packages to send to the troops in the Middle East and the have called their project ‘Operation Cup of Joe.’ These packages include items such as coffee, tea and hot chocolate. They are relatively small items, but they mean a lot to those who do not have regular access to them and are living temporarily in another country and culture. It is said that present packages of this kind are particularly important during holiday seasons, when home-sickness can be greatest.
According to quotes from one of the organisers of the project, she had been told that ‘coffee is king.’
In return, one of the military men visited the school to talk to the pupils about his experiences abroad in places such as Kuwait, Spain and Afghanistan.
Donations are being collected until the middle of the month and after that cut off date, the packages will be shipped off to the troops to raise their spirits and remind them that people at home are thinking about them and making it possible to sip on a decent cup of coffee.