Thanks from the military.

Below is a note I received from Sgt. Ryan Ellis from the 1-45th ADT deployed in Afghanistan. Thanks to everyone...

To everyone who was involved:

Thank you from the 1-45th Oklahoma Agribusiness Development Team for the Happy Grams from Alumni Camp. It meant so much for our team to receive letters from Oklahoma FFA members as most of our team are former members. It was such a pleasure to open a box and have 95 Happy Grams, from members all over the state, staring back at us. We are very thankful for your thoughts and time to honor us during such a busy time for OK FFA. Thank you for the coordination with Dr. Shelly Sitton to arrange for them to be shipped over with more school supplies. It is hard to express the appreciation we have for receiving letters from home and it means even more when they come from children. On a more personal note, I was very overwhelmed to see the Happy Grams. It made me feel like I was back at home and back with students, not to mention that I personally know so many of the people involved. I was so proud (as the ag teacher of the group) to show the letters to everyone else and tell them that our state FFA association was thinking about us. I look forward to meeting with some of you when I return, to share stories and pictures from our agriculture mission here. Thanks again to all of you for your support and we will see you in a couple of months when we return home. Please let the members know that we appreciate their thoughts !

SGT Ryan Ellis

Ag Education/Extension SME

1-45th OK ADT

Deployed