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When doing your Christmas cards this year, take one card and send it to this address.
If everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much would get.

When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include the following:

A Recovering American Soldier
US Army Garrison Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20307
 
BobbyFord said:
When doing your Christmas cards this year, take one card and send it to this address.
If everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much would get.

When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include the following:

US Army Garrison Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20307
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Somebody posted this last year or the year before and I sent 2 cards. In july they were returned to sender.

I hope you have better luck. I will try it again tho....one card can go along way.
 
Well, I'm pretty sure this one works. I just sent one out a bit ago and it's been around for quite a while.

I know when my nephew was in Iraq and my friend was in Afghanistan, it really helped the sting of being so far away at the holidays a bit better knowing others were thinking of them and praying for them.

Before my nephew was overseas and after my friend left Afghanistan, I was able to adopt a soldier through this site called Books for Soldiers. They changed the site so you can't get addresses like you used to. We felt really good sending Christmas packages to "our soldier." We've kept track of one another and he's now married and at a different duty station. My nephew is actually home for the holidays, but can't be more than 3 hrs away from Camp Stewart in case they're called up, so he won't be able to come home. At least he's here in the states though.

Try this one:

http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html


They give you a choice of messages, but I chose other and wrote my own. You can do that as well if you choose a card w/o a holiday look. I think there's actually only one that is so being able to send your own message is nice.
 
I like those alternatives. It chaps my hide that times are so screwed up that you can't send a soldier a Christmas card in by snail mail. :mad:
 
Send a Card. Bring a Smile.
By Mary Etta Boesl
http://www.redcross.org/article/0,1072,0_312_8445,00.html
Friday, November 21, 2008 — Are you addressing your holiday cards this Thanksgiving weekend? Please add one more card to your list. Help the American Red Cross send holiday greetings to an American Military Hero.

The American Red Cross/Pitney Bowes Holiday Mail for Heroes campaign will collect more than a million holiday cards from people across the United States. The cards will be screened, sorted and respectfully delivered into the hands of wounded warriors, servicemembers, military families and veterans.

The address to which cards should be sent, card guidelines and a compelling video about the program are on the Holiday Mail for Heroes Web page.

About the American Red Cross:
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and counsels victims of disasters; provides nearly half of the nation's blood supply; teaches lifesaving skills; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a charitable organization - not a government agency - and depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its humanitarian mission. For more information, please visit www.redcross.org or join our blog at www.redcrosschat.org.
 
kelloggs5TLfan said:
Send a Card. Bring a Smile.
By Mary Etta Boesl
http://www.redcross.org/article/0,1072,0_312_8445,00.html
Friday, November 21, 2008 — Are you addressing your holiday cards this Thanksgiving weekend? Please add one more card to your list. Help the American Red Cross send holiday greetings to an American Military Hero.

The American Red Cross/Pitney Bowes Holiday Mail for Heroes campaign will collect more than a million holiday cards from people across the United States. The cards will be screened, sorted and respectfully delivered into the hands of wounded warriors, servicemembers, military families and veterans.

The address to which cards should be sent, card guidelines and a compelling video about the program are on the Holiday Mail for Heroes Web page.

About the American Red Cross:
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and counsels victims of disasters; provides nearly half of the nation's blood supply; teaches lifesaving skills; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a charitable organization - not a government agency - and depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its humanitarian mission. For more information, please visit www.redcross.org or join our blog at www.redcrosschat.org.
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Awesome. Thanks!
 
one of the schools I work at sends cards to Walter Reed from the kids and all - but Walter Reed's close enough to drive so they're all delivered there.

They also send some to the USO to send over to Iraq. I personally like Operation Phone Home but I don't think I'll have the money to spare this time
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thanks State of Maryland :mad:
 
AndyMarquisLIVE said:
one of the schools I work at sends cards to Walter Reed from the kids and all - but Walter Reed's close enough to drive so they're all delivered there.

They also send some to the USO to send over to Iraq. I personally like Operation Phone Home but I don't think I'll have the money to spare this time
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thanks State of Maryland :mad:
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OK then. Thanks Andy. Everyone send your cards to Andy and he'll get them to Walter Reed for you. That is so nice of you to offer...
 
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