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America: Support your Soldiers!

This is unbelievable:

A young New York city kid volunteers for the Army after 9/11. Gets stationed in Korea before he gets shipped to Iraq. Last week he gets a package of letters from middle school kids. You would figure it would be letters of encouragement, thank you’s, cute pictures; maybe even some cookies. But, that didn’t happen.

These letters were filled with lines like….why are you “destroying holy places like mosques”, “only 50 or 100 [soldiers] will survive”, and why are you “being forced to kill innocent people.” Can you imagine sitting in you bunk, in a foreign country, away from your friends and family, and getting 20 letters like that. What if that was the last thing the soldier read before he was killed? Well, it happened. A middle school teacher in Brooklyn (Junior High school 51) actually had a letter writing campaign as part of his class, put the letters together, and then mailed them to a soldier.

Well, I think this is just the motivation to do something for our men and women overseas. I have found a department of defense web site that lists like 50 different things (something for everyone) you can do to support the troops. You can send emails, write letters, send packages, donate to charities, volunteer your time, you can even buy dog tags. Please take some time out of your day to visit this site or find your own. There are people in foreign countries being shot at so that you can relax in your home each night and watch TV. http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/ Click on the second star in the middle of the page titled “How you can Help”.

Original Article in the NY Post:
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/40259.htm

Follow Up article in the next day’s NY Post:
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/40994.htm

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