Memorial Day

TheBischToday is Memorial Day. A time to honor those who have died for our country and thank those who continue to do so. These men and women have died for the very thing we all take for granted; our freedom. Please take a moment of silence today to remember and respect our armed forces.

Please remember that today isn’t just about having a day off from work so you can party and get drunk and your sunburn on out on the lake. Those very benefits that you’re enjoying today are what our troops are dying for.

Want to go one step further? You can. There are several groups who voluntarily support our armed forces. Check them out and see if one of them suits you.

TheBisch will be supporting Recycle North America for the benefit of AnySoldier.com. You too can help AnySoldier.com and the environment at the very same time! Simply send all your empty printer cartridges to Recycle North America and they will donate up to $2.00 for inkjet cartridges, up to $5.00 for toner cartridges and $1.00 for every cell phone to Any Soldier, Inc.! Recycle North America pays for the boxes, the shipping of the boxes to you, and provides PRE-PAID RETURN shipping labels so you can send the items back to them for free! It costs you absolutely nothing and you would really be helping our cause!

All you need to do is go to www.RecycleNorthAmerica.com, click on the “Start Here and Register Now” button, click on the “For A Specific Fundraiser” button, fill in Sections 1 and 2, Choose “Any Soldier, Inc.” in Section 3, fill in Sections 4 and 5, and click on the “Register Now” button. Then, simply login and order your boxes.

Volunteer Organizations That Help American Soldiers: (listed alphabetically)

Any Soldier™ - www.AnySoldier.com
Marty Horn
SFC, USA MP, Retired
President

Want to send your support to a soldier in harm’s way, but have no idea of what to send, who to send it to, or how to send it? Any Soldier™ gives individuals and groups everything they need to really do more then just put a magnet on their car. AnySoldier.com currently lists over 3,500 military contacts in the war who get your mail and pass on to the soldiers around them. Any Soldier Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization making a real difference, with your help. Presently, Any Soldier™ is supporting 90,403 male service members and 22, 566 female service members.

Helmets to Hardhats - www.helmetstohardhats.org
Sarah Hayes
Marketing Director
760-438-5843
sarah@helmetstohardhats.org

Helmets to Hardhats is a nationwide program that connects National Guardsmen, Reservists, transitioning military members and veterans with quality career training and employment opportunities in the construction industry. Please tell your friends and family about this free program that is available to all of those that have served our country. To learn more about the program, please visit our website.

Homes For Our Troops - http://homesforourtroops.org
Victoria Mosier
Administrative Director
vlmosier@homesforourtroops.org
Office 508-823-3300

Homes for Our Troops assists injured veterans and their immediate families by building new or adapting existing homes for handicapped accessibility for our American heroes. We accept and welcome financial contributions as well as in kind donations of labor and building materials. Please visit the website to sign up! With your help we can accomplish our mission. Please feel free to contact us by phone, email us to share your thoughts, or request assistance. We hope that you will visit www.homesforourtroops.org often to see the progress we are making in the aid to our military and their families. Thank you.

RecruitMilitary - www.recruitmilitary.com
Drew Myers, former Marine Corps captain
President
drew@recruitmilitary.com
513-683-5020

RecruitMilitary, founded in 1998, helps find civilian jobs for men and women who are transitioning out of the armed forces, military veterans with varying amounts of business experience, members of the reserve forces and National Guard, and military spouses. The company offers a full range of products and services to corporate America through its website at http://www.recruitmilitary.com; including the ability to search its database of over 80,000 registered veterans and spouses. All of the company’s services are free to job candidates.

Soldiers’ Angels - www.soldiersangels.org
Don MacKay
Director of Operations
soldiersangels@gmail.com (address your email to Don)

The mission of Soldiers’ Angels is to facilitate the “adoption” of a U.S. Soldier. You get your own soldier, they get an “angel”. We ask that you write to your soldier at least once a week and send a care package at least once a month. You can adopt one soldier or a whole group. Please visit our website to see all of our special projects, some of which are: Wounded Soldiers Project (you can write the wounded), Operation Top Knot (reach out to families who had or will have babies born while their soldier is deployed), Family Outreach Team (support for family members who have a soldier deployed), and the Letter Writing Team (where you can specify how many soldiers’ addresses you want to receive, on which days of the week). Soldiers’ Angels will be receiving the names of 3,000 newly deployed soldiers this week (we got 9,000 during the third deploy) and we need angels!! This is very gratifying work! Please join today to adopt a U.S. Soldier!

List courtesy of My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

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  1. TheBisch
    Suzy
    30/05/2005 at 9:08 am Permalink

    Visiting your site from Michelle’s…and oh what fun. I had no idea about the anysoldier.com ink cartrigde thing. Thanks for sharing that…I have a small business and a gazillion of those cartridges in a bag waiting for someone to make good use of them. I’ll be registering at the website you suggested and giving the cartridges to them. Feels so good when you do something so simple, but so right, doesn’t it?

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    Moogie
    30/05/2005 at 9:12 am Permalink

    Thanks for the info. This is great! I didn’t know something like this existed.

    BTW..Michele sent me but I’ll be back.

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    TheBisch
    30/05/2005 at 9:38 am Permalink

    That’s great! I’m sure they’ll appreciate your donation. I will be collecting the ink cartridges and previously used cellphones that we have lying around our offices. There are several people who do what I do, and therefore we burn through cellphones like they’re going out of style. The average cellphone in our hands, lives for less then 9 months.

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    phoenix
    30/05/2005 at 10:16 am Permalink

    I already do the anysoldier.com thing, and it is a great thing that they do!

    Here via michele! Another blog with a great look! :)

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    Allie
    30/05/2005 at 11:57 am Permalink

    Have a great Memorial Day !!!

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    kenju
    30/05/2005 at 2:15 pm Permalink

    Good to know I have a place to put them all.

    Michele sent me this time.

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    aka_monty
    30/05/2005 at 2:27 pm Permalink

    I’m back again, via Michele! ;)

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    MommaK
    30/05/2005 at 2:41 pm Permalink

    Great post & awesome blog. I’m here via Michele today. Hope you have a great one:-)

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    Marc
    30/05/2005 at 3:00 pm Permalink

    Thanks for the info Kyle.

    Too often, people view memorial day as an excuse to drink beer and grill and take a day off of work.

    While all good things, it is important to remember exactly why we are getting this day off.

    And, michele sent me.

    Yes, michele sent me.

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    Michele
    30/05/2005 at 5:02 pm Permalink

    It truly is a wonderful post Kyle.

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    guppyman
    30/05/2005 at 10:08 pm Permalink

    That’s what I’m talking about! Great post!

    BTW- Michelle sent me.

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    Presentstorm
    30/05/2005 at 10:10 pm Permalink

    Wonderful post and very informative ..Thanks !!!And I am sure our soldiers thank you …
    Just doing a lil drive by posting via Michele :)

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    Amanda
    30/05/2005 at 10:19 pm Permalink

    Michele sent me but I am stuck here reading into your many links. ;) Thanks

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    Butterfly Tears
    30/05/2005 at 10:37 pm Permalink

    Visiting you thru Micheles…. :)

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    Melissa
    30/05/2005 at 11:20 pm Permalink

    Thanks for the info! I am going to visit the Any Soldier site right now.

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    Kevin
    30/05/2005 at 11:34 pm Permalink

    Those are some damn good causes. BTW, here from Michele’s.