Saturday, November 29, 2008

Cards for Wounded Soldiers


Particularly at this time of year, our hearts open to the less fortunate among us. Let's not forget our wounded heroes, the men and women who have been wounded while protecting our lives and our freedoms. It's easy to say they knew this possibility came with the job, but it's not something they expected to happen. Some of these people, for one reason or another, won't receive Christmas mail unless you send it.

There is an email going around that also asks for mail to be sent to a Recovering American Hero, but it has the wrong address. Mail sent to the address in the email will not be delivered.

When you're addressing your Christmas cards this year, can you please address at least one extra to A Recovering American Soldier at Walter Reed Hospital? The address is:


Holiday Mail for Heroes
P.O. Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20794-5456


I've long believed that Americans are the most generous people on the face of the Earth when they know a need exists. Please prove me right.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

On behalf of my colleagues at Pitney Bowes ( http://www.pb.com ) and the American Red Cross ( http://www.redcross.org/ ), thank you for all of your support in helping to spread the word about the “Holiday Mail for Heroes” program.

We would like you to know that we’ve not only reached the goal of delivering one million cards to US service members, veterans and military families, but we surpassed it! And it’s all because people like you and your blog readers who got involved. View the following video for more details and a personal message of thanks from all of us: http://blip.tv/file/1643672/.

We could not have done it without you.