Support our Troops

[3lips]

This morning I was watching a national New Program and they were interviewing a represenative from a non-profit origanization that supports our troops and their children. It's called dogtagsforkids and the webiste is www.dogtagsforkids.com  Basically what it's about is as follows I pasted this from their website.

100% of Your Donation Delivers Smiles
 Help us send dog tags to troops in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan so they can send them to their kids back home!

We desperately need everyone's help. Please see our Donation Page for more information. Thank you!

This is a grassroots effort to show our support for the troops and their families. We tried to think of something we could send Dad or Mom that they could easily send back to their kids. This is something easy to ship and something the kids can hang on to until Dad or Mom gets back home.

Your donation will help send a tag in the appropriate service color to an appreciative service member. There is NO charge to the service member or their family for these tags. As of November, 2008 we have sent 404,000 tags to the troops overseas to send home to their children

[A8TOOL]

I suppose it's a cute idea  hehe   I greatly appreciate our troops and their commitment/ effort and have been involved with a few local organizations and bars that send needed supplies and other support to our troops in both middle east hot spots.

[BlueJ1]

Some buddies and myself were talking about the support we get from back stateside the other day. We receive so many boxes from people back stateside full of stuff its unbelievable. Its actually gotten to the point where were sick of sweets. We pass them around then pass them off to the Army guys and they finish them off for us. We also get alot of mail from people back stateside. We get mail from our family which is nice. But we really appreciate the letters we get from old vets and kids. The letters from the Vets we read down to each last detail. I had a WWII vet write me a 3 page letter about how he fought in the 101st through the invasion of France to its last days in Europe. He told me that even tho our wars we separated by 60 years that he had just the same amount of respect and love for me and my battle buddies here that he had for his buddies he fought along side with throughout Europe. He endured the extremes of a different kind then that what I experience here, but in the long run both of us will always be connected by a bond that allows us to sit down and look into each others eyes and know what the other has seen. The letters from the little kids are so much fun and yet down to the point. A simple letter that you have to translate the spelling means the most to us. They usually write to us short phrases like "We love you all. My dog's name is truffles. Come home alive." I took on a 3rd grade class out of arizona as pen pals and get letters from them all the time. Their teacher reads my letters to them every week and she wrote to me that the kids are always asking if the sailor's letter is here yet.

 

[1pLUs44]

[FYB]

Have we not learned what war leads to?

No, we have not. And never shall. That is how our end will come.

-FYB

[SkyTiger]

Supporting this program is a good idea. I know first hand how good it makes you feel to recieve something special from home. *nods* Trust me.. even a letter from a school kid makes you smile some days.