In case you haven't heard of the www.anysoldier.com website (and you have now!), PLEASE check it out.
This website is a care package grassroots project started by a deployed soldier from the local area and has grown to encompass all the troops deployed overseas. Soldiers/Airmen/Marines sign up and write an entry saying who they are and where they are stationed and then list what their unit would like to have sent to them in care packages.
Here's the thing that grabs you: most of them aren't even requesting stuff for themselves - they are requesting mail for people in their unit that never get any mail from loved ones... toys, candy and clothes for the Iraqi or Afghanistani children... clothes for displaced Iraqi families... and even toys and treats for their military working dogs.
The most expediant thing for me to do from work today to try and help out these heroes was to contact Petco and tell them about anysoldier.com and ask for donations for the requested items for the military working dogs.
But you can bet your ass that I plan to put together care packages and start sending them overseas to support our troops!
And frankly I feel ashamed as an Air Force veteran that I haven't done anything significant any sooner.
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