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May 2009:
G.C. Murphy’s in Iraq

Air Force Sgt. James Dylan is serving with the 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron in Iraq. He writes:

“Hi, you might think this is funny, but I am a soldier in Iraq, and one day I was digging through a pile of old CARE packages people in the states sent, and I found this unopened pack of handkerchiefs from an old Murphy's store.

I am from California and have never heard of or seen a Murphy's, (but) the package looked old, so I went online and typed in Murphy's and your site came up.

Kind of funny, no? How many decades ago (?) that package was sitting on a shelf in a Murphy's store, someone bought them and they were sitting somewhere unopened all these years, and they were thrown in a CARE package and end up in Iraq in 2009? It's a hell of a story.

So I scanned in the empty wrapper and here it is for you, if you are interested.

Also, yes, the handkerchiefs are currently being used in the desert!”

GCM Pelham handkerchiefs


 
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(Previous photo: April 2009, Paintsville, Ky., store)




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