There are many organizations that are sending donations over to our troops. If you live by a military base, you can call the Public Affairs office and ask if any one is collecting donations to send. You might have a friend whose husband, wife, or son might be in the service, ask if they are sending a box and if their loved one likes something special. We all can keep them and their families in our thoughts and prayers. It is amazing and humbling how a package or letter/card will encourage them. On that note, following is a list of organizations that might be of interest to you. These organizations can be used at any time, not just at Christmas.
This is sponsored by the Xerox Company. You can pick out an ecard, drawn by children, and send it our troops.
http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html
This is one of the oldest organizations, it started as a small local grass roots group, and has expanded nationally.
http://www.operation-support-our-troops.org/
This was sent to me by a civilian worker at Camp Pendelton, there is a listing of specific needs from specific soldiers. This is a great site as it also tells of some of the thing that our troops are doing in a non combat role, that we never hear about on our local media.
http://www.anysoldier.com/WhereToSend/
The Air Force Aide Society
The Army Emergency Relief
The Navy Marine Relief Society
I have to admit I have never done more than praying for your troops and also for the ones from other countries - thanks for the link. I will see what I can do about it from here. I also like the song...
ReplyDeleteThank you Lusy, for reminding me we should pray for all the troops in harms way from the various countries.
ReplyDeletehey thank you John, we should pray, and speak up for the troops, they are the hero's.
ReplyDeletethanks for the reminder John..have a wonderful holiday season!
ReplyDeleteGreat job John......
ReplyDeleteyeah we definately dont need to forget about our brave soldiers over there.
ReplyDeleteThis is great. We do something like this every year through work. We gather items on a list...and send whatever we can collect out to the troops. It can be one box, sometimes it has been several. With everything that is "going on" in our own lives we sometimes forget that there are people out there all the time making it safe for us to only have to worry about our lives.
ReplyDeleteThanks John for this :)
ReplyDeletegood post Dr.O...
ReplyDeleteGreat post John. It's so much better to think of others especially those who keep us safe..
ReplyDeleteYes, it's really important to remember that we are all snug in our beds over here while people are going through unimaginable things over there.
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