One of our readers is the author of http://militarycarepackages.blogspot.com. I took a visit to his site and thought I would share the following post with you here. Check out his blog for links to other organizations that support our troops as well.
Soldiers' Angels - www.soldiersangels.org
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The mission of Soldiers’ Angels is to facilitate the “adoption” of a U.S. Soldier. You get your own soldier, they get an “angel”. We ask that you write to your soldier at least once a week and send a care package at least once a month. You can adopt one soldier or a whole group. Please visit our website to see all of our special projects, some of which are: Wounded Soldiers Project (you can write the wounded), Operation Top Knot (reach out to families who had babies born while their soldier is deployed), Family Outreach Team (support for family members who have a soldier deployed), and the Letter Writing Team (where you can specify how many soldiers’ addresses you want to receive, on which days, so you can write to them). Soldiers’ Angels will be receiving the names of 3,000 newly deployed soldiers this week (we got 9,000 during the third deploy) and we need angels!! This is very gratifying work! Please join today to adopt a U.S. Soldier!
I adopted a soldier in October of this year after receiving an e-mail with the subject of "Lets say thanks". I have always wanted to show my support and found this to be a great way to do it. I am very fortunate to have already heard from my soldier. This is not usually the case as they are very busy "staying alive". My heart is full of pride and I truly love what I'm doing. I wish all of our fellow Americans would take some time out to let these brave men and women know we care about them. A letter, card or care package boosts morale so much and these soldiers really do appreciate it.I know that for sure. They sacrifice so much to do their jobs, the hardships they endure are unimaginable. We can surely spare a little time and energy and show them some love.
I guarantee you will not regret it if you adopt a soldier. It has been very fulfilling and I recommend this experience to one and all.
Why not adopt your own soldier today? You'll
be glad you did!
JoAnna
Posted by: JoAnna Negron | November 28, 2006 at 06:37 PM
My name is Kathy Thomas and the reason I am writting is because I am on my 4th soldier, he let me know in Jan. that I should wait to mail his box out because he was going on R&R well I have been e-mailing him for about 2 mounths and have heard nothing. I tried writting "tadderman" my as I say my supervisor or go to person and now I recieved a Mailer-Demon no such person I would like to know who to write to to find out what is going on with my soldier his name is " Benjamin Garrett" he is a Marine. This way if he ended up being sent home I will adopt another soldier. So if anyone can help me figure out who to get in touch with I would really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Kathy Thomas
Posted by: Kathy Thomas | March 19, 2008 at 11:17 PM