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From the Honolulu Advertiser's website
Wat next? Dey like spam? Send dem some li hing mui also and oda kine stuff.
Samantha Ligsay, readiness assistant at the Hawai'i National Guard Family Program Offices, got swamped yesterday by a deluge of calls from people wanting to send rice to Hawai'i's Guard troops in Baghdad.
They were responding to an Advertiser report from Iraq that more than 600 soldiers who love "sticky-kine rice" faced a morale-damping shortage, and might soon be forced to settle for Minute Rice served at base chow halls. The soldiers are with the 2nd Battalion, 299th Infantry at Iraq's Camp Victory.
The story included a Guard phone number residents could call to send rice to Baghdad.
"By the time I got to my office at 9 a.m., my boss is already fielding calls," Ligsay said. "He's like, 'You better read the paper — your husband's causing a ruckus over here!'
"And, sure enough. He's got to have his rice."
They were responding to an Advertiser report from Iraq that more than 600 soldiers who love "sticky-kine rice" faced a morale-damping shortage, and might soon be forced to settle for Minute Rice served at base chow halls. The soldiers are with the 2nd Battalion, 299th Infantry at Iraq's Camp Victory.
The story included a Guard phone number residents could call to send rice to Baghdad.
"By the time I got to my office at 9 a.m., my boss is already fielding calls," Ligsay said. "He's like, 'You better read the paper — your husband's causing a ruckus over here!'
"And, sure enough. He's got to have his rice."
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